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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-17 17:08:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-30 15:14:55 +0200 |
| commit | 4131356cdab8d37fc395ca5466a0401c8573380c (patch) | |
| tree | 8c4c6f1c3172358b735b481cbbfdd9cc04b00ed9 /man3head | |
| parent | fd00f831b52d61a91d59cb3b46182869145d9700 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-4131356cdab8d37fc395ca5466a0401c8573380c.tar.gz | |
man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS, STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sections
- Add a new HISTORY section that covers the history of an API, both
regarding implementations and regarding old standards. This was
previously covered in VERSIONS, and in some cases in STANDARDS.
- Repurpose VERSIONS to cover differing implementations in _current_
systems.
- STANDARDS is reduced to only cover current versions of standards.
That basically means only C11 (C99 has been superseeded by C11; C17
is just a bugfix of C11, so not really a new version), and
POSIX.1-2008 (*-2001 was superseeded by *-2008; *-2017 was just a
bugfix for *-2008). The section also mentions for example 'Linux',
'GNU' or 'BSD' when a non-standard API is Linux- or GNU-only or if
it's (de-facto) standard in the BSDs.
- In some cases content that should go into one of these sections was
in NOTES. Move it from there to where it corresponds.
- In the SYNOPSIS, I added [[deprecated]] in some functions that I
found are deprecated by the relevant standards.
- A few other related changes...
Cc: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3head')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3head/printf.h.3head | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3head/sysexits.h.3head | 6 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man3head/printf.h.3head b/man3head/printf.h.3head index 8f1aa6a37e..e432d3cb9a 100644 --- a/man3head/printf.h.3head +++ b/man3head/printf.h.3head @@ -221,7 +221,9 @@ On error, it should return \-1. .TP .B EINVAL The specifier was not a valid character. -.SH VERSIONS +.SH STANDARDS +GNU. +.SH HISTORY .BR \%register_printf_function (3) is an older function similar to .BR \%register_printf_specifier (), @@ -231,8 +233,6 @@ That function can't handle user-defined types. .BR \%register_printf_specifier () superseeds .BR \%register_printf_function (3). -.SH STANDARDS -These nonstandard functions are present in glibc. .SH EXAMPLES The following example program registers the 'b' and 'B' specifiers to print integers in binary format, diff --git a/man3head/sysexits.h.3head b/man3head/sysexits.h.3head index 33e23b9105..4014b80284 100644 --- a/man3head/sysexits.h.3head +++ b/man3head/sysexits.h.3head @@ -185,14 +185,14 @@ Something was found in an unconfigured or misconfigured state. The numerical values corresponding to the symbolical ones are given in parenthesis for easy reference. .SH STANDARDS -Not in POSIX.1. -Present on the BSDs. +BSD. +.SH HISTORY The .I <sysexits.h> file appeared in 4.0BSD for use by the deliverymail utility, later renamed to .BR sendmail (8). -.SH BUGS +.SH CAVEATS The choice of an appropriate exit value is often ambiguous. .SH SEE ALSO .BR err (3), |