Re: groff in git (was Re: [RFC] input.cpp: Remove use of strncat(3))

2022-12-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Dave Kemper : > Eric, can reposurgeon retroactively add an earlier release to git > without changing all the existing git hashes (which are referenced all > over the place, in the bug tracker and elsewhere)? I know nothing > about how these hashes are generated, so this may be utterly > infeasible

Re: Linux man-pages prehistory

2022-12-15 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Andries! On 12/15/22 21:08, Andries E. Brouwer wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 04:24:31PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Hi all! I'm pleased to announce that there's a new branch in the git repository, named 'prehistory', which covers exactly that. Good! I have one question: did you prese

Re: [-Wstringop-overflow=] strncat(3)

2022-12-15 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Martin, On 12/15/22 21:50, Martin Sebor wrote: On 12/14/22 16:14, Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha wrote: [...]    int    main(void)    {    char    buf[BUFSIZ];    size_t  len;    buf[0] = '\0';  // There’s no ’cpy’ function to

Re: [-Wstringop-overflow=] strncat(3)

2022-12-15 Thread Martin Sebor
On 12/14/22 16:14, Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha wrote: [CC += groff] Hi Andrew, On 12/14/22 23:57, Andrew Pinski wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 2:46 PM Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha wrote: Hi, I was rewriting the strncat(3) manual page, and when I tried to compile the example prog

Re: Linux man-pages prehistory

2022-12-15 Thread Andries E. Brouwer
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 04:24:31PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm pleased to announce that there's a new branch in the git repository, > named 'prehistory', which covers exactly that. Good! I have one question: did you preserve the time stamps? > P.S.: Andries, do you know an

Re: Linux man-pages prehistory

2022-12-15 Thread Alejandro Colomar
On 12/15/22 16:24, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Hi all! I'm pleased to announce that there's a new branch in the git repository, named 'prehistory', which covers exactly that.  It is connected the the master branch in a backwards-time-travel way, so that the tip of the branch is the oldest man

Re: Linux man-pages prehistory

2022-12-15 Thread Alejandro Colomar
On 12/15/22 16:24, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Hi all! I'm pleased to announce that there's a new branch in the git repository, named 'prehistory', which covers exactly that.  It is connected the the master branch in a backwards-time-travel way, so that the tip of the branch is the oldest man

Linux man-pages prehistory

2022-12-15 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi all! I'm pleased to announce that there's a new branch in the git repository, named 'prehistory', which covers exactly that. It is connected the the master branch in a backwards-time-travel way, so that the tip of the branch is the oldest man pages that one can find --that is, 1.0--. Thi