Hi Joseph, > Date: 2026-07-31 22:10:13+0000 > From: Joseph Myers <[email protected]> > > On Fri, 31 Jul 2026, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > More to the point: what's a better forum for pursuing this attempt at > > reform that will both (a) reach a significant population of stakeholders > > who can variously red-team it and/or endorse it; and (b) has sufficient > > visibility that it can't easily be ignored by people who oppose reform > > in this area for whatever reason? > > man-pages should document the world of C APIs as it is, in a way that has > broad community agreement; it should follow, not lead, on any changes. > > When an API has been in <string.h> since 1989, that means documenting > <string.h> as the main location for that API - not some other location one > person thinks is better and that most of the community has never heard of.
FWIW, the APIs have been in <memory.h> since 1986 in 4.3BSD, and in System V they go back further to 1983. Have a lovely night! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es>
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