Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:28:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net> To: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: sheldonh@FreeBSD.ORG, mika@cs.caltech.edu, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/12372: man page HISTORY for strdup is wrong Message-ID: <199906241728.MAA16796@mpp.pro-ns.net> In-Reply-To: <19990624115218.A3732@mad> from Tim Vanderhoek at "Jun 24, 1999 11:52:18 am"
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> On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 07:25:00AM -0700, sheldonh@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > Synopsis: man page HISTORY for strdup is wrong > > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > > State-Changed-By: sheldonh > > State-Changed-When: Thu Jun 24 07:24:09 PDT 1999 > > State-Changed-Why: > > The HISTORY section of a manpage isn't intended for use as a portability > > reference. It's there to indicate how a program or interface came to > > exist in the system. > > Yes, but he said the HISTORY was simply wrong. > > For reasons unbeknownst, the PR is almost marked confidential. From a quick check via the man page section at www.freebsd.org, strdup was available in 4.3BSD Reno, and the Net/2 man page states that strdup first appeared in 4.4BSD. It's been so long since I used a 4.2 system, I can't remember if it had strdup or not. Either way, it looks like the HISTORY really is incorrect. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.ORG or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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