Hi Sam, > Date: 2026-08-03 15:03:30+0100 > From: Sam James <[email protected]> > > Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> writes: > > >> 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? > > > > This patch set is quite independent of the standard. It documents a > > header file that has been provided since forever in glibc and most other > > POSIX-ish systems, so changes to the standard are unlikely to have any > > effects. I've clarified this extensively. If you want to discourage me > > from applying the change, you should rather bring up technical reasons. > > > > This passive-aggressive message is not something that will have the > > desired effects you could possibly reach with technical arguments. > > I didn't read it as passive-aggressive,
I did, and still do. > but I will say that I think > you've gone a bit hard in the responses to Collin in this subthread, and > I think the fact you sent several followup emails to yourself indicates > perhaps things got heated in the moment. Yes, they have. And it was good that a night has happened after that. It had calmed down. > I think Collin was making the same conflict of interest point as > was raised earlier, just in a different way. You may or may not agree > with how he phrased it, and you're free to challenge that, but my > reading of your replies is that it went a bit far. Collin went too far. Have a lovely day! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es>
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
