Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Branden, > >> Date: 2026-08-02 21:09:08-0500 >> From: "G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> >> >> At 2026-08-03T01:42:57+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> > > > > Date: 2026-08-02 16:27:21-0700 >> > > > > From: Collin Funk <[email protected]> >> > > > > I can't help but wonder of what happens in WG 14 rejects this >> > > > > controversial, as obvious by this thread, change. Will the >> > > > > man-pages changes be reverted? >> > > >> > > > > Or will we slowly watch them document personal >> > > > > preferences instead of existing standards? >> > > >> > > BTW, as I showed in another subthread, strncpy(3) did contain >> > > opinionated comments well before I was involved. If you're really >> > > going to accuse me of that, better make sure you get the history >> > > right. >> > >> > Oh, and while at it, please also read my review of glibc's own >> > opinionated and bogus documentation about string truncation. >> >> I don't think this rhetorical tactic is a sound one. You are implying >> that because Collin (and perhaps others) are not on record as having >> already consistently opposed editorializing in the glibc manual, or in >> the Linux man-pages prior to your stewardship, that they are hypocrites. >> >> First, that's not necessarily true. Who's read every word of either >> work? Who had already done so 5, 10, or 20 years ago? > > He doesn't need to have read every word of the glibc manual, but this > precise text he could have read it, because it was mentioned by Paul in > this thread (different subthread) prior (19:28 UTC) to his message, and > reviewed by me also prior (20:31 UTC) to his message (23:27 UTC).
I often reply as I go rather than reading all other emails around that time. I don't think you should assume he read those emails and deliberately neglected their contents. > > Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 14:28:33 -0500 > From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 22:31:59 +0200 > From: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <am-eAGL6OWqP9Yah@devuan> > > Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:27:21 -0700 > From: Collin Funk <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Also relevant is the fact that he accused me of "slowly" documenting > "personal preferences". His wording implies that it wasn't there > before. Maybe I misunderstood, though. I'd be happy to rectify if I > was wrong. I think he meant in general? > > While he didn't need to know whether it was there before, it would be > good to make some effort to learn whether that was the case, before > making such a serious accusation. I took it to be that you (as you've said yourself) have a different style from Michael and this does involve a more opinionated (you may not call it that) approach. He's commenting on that being unfavourable to him. I didn't think that was contentious, more that you see it as your duty wrt education. > > ... > sam
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