Re: GNU rm's man page doesn't name chattr as a "See Also"program

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   I don't think the Linux kernel is part of the GNU project. That's
   one reason why it's called GNU/Linux and not just GNU.

You are correct, Linux is not a part of the GNU project.

   The man pages are automatically generated. They're just a summary
   of the output of "foo -h", listing the switches and directing the
   user to the info documentation.

They are a summary of --help actually, the -h switch is used in some
utilites for other things (like --human-readable or -h in ls).

   So the information about chattr would belong in the info
   documentation.

It is quite impossible to document chattr, since as I said it differs
from system to system.

   Perhaps there should be an OS-specific section in the "Changing
   file attributes" node, which could be linked to from the rm node.

Since chattr is both FS specific, and OS specific you would have to
document chattr for different file-systems, operating-system and maybe
even different distributions.

I think this kind of documentation belongs in the documentation for
the chattr utility, and not in coreutils.

But maybe rm could handle cases when removing files with weird
file-system flags a bit more sanley, or make the file-system more
robust in handling files that it cannot remove.