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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net>
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Subject: Re: docs/12372: man page HISTORY for strdup is wrong
In-Reply-To: <19990624115218.A3732@mad> from Tim Vanderhoek at "Jun 24, 1999 11:52:18 am"
To: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca (Tim Vanderhoek)
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:28:58 -0500 (CDT)
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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


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