> On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:32:39 +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>
> > > Or:
> > > A strdup() macro was first used in the 4.1cBSD debugger, dbx.
> > >
> > > Not helpful.
> >
> > It would be misleading to just say that it appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno
> > because it was used in various programs for eigh
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Todd C. Miller
wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:32:39 +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>
>> That's beside the point. The HISTORY section generally wants to
>> convey two pieces of information: Where an interface was originally
>> invented (in this case, System V) and wh
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:32:39 +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > Or:
> > A strdup() macro was first used in the 4.1cBSD debugger, dbx.
> >
> > Not helpful.
>
> It would be misleading to just say that it appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno
> because it was used in various programs for eight years before
> f
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:32:39 +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> That's beside the point. The HISTORY section generally wants to
> convey two pieces of information: Where an interface was originally
> invented (in this case, System V) and when it became available in
> the direct ancestry of OpenBSD.
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:32:39 +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > Or:
> > The strcpy() function first appeared in the Programmer's Workbench
> > (PWB/UNIX) and was ported to Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
> >
> > Ported? What is involved in porting strcpy?
>
> Nothing much, obviously. You have sugge
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:43:11 -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
> Ported? What is involved in porting strcpy?
I was curious enough to check and the only change between the pwb
strcpy.c and the v7 version is the variable holding the return value
was changed from int to char *. I'd call that a bug fix rath
Hi Ted,
Ted Unangst wrote on Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 03:43:11PM -0500:
> The string man pages are full of not so interesting history sections.
> I don't think they are helpful, and they are in some cases misleading
> or incorrect.
I strongly dislike your proposal to summarily delete HISTORY section
The string man pages are full of not so interesting history sections.
I don't think they are helpful, and they are in some cases misleading
or incorrect.
For example:
The memmove() function first appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
That's arguably wrong, since it appeared in C89 which predates Reno.
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