Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:51:38 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>, Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org, jilles@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hello fdclose Message-ID: <86a9cj6oo5.fsf@nine.des.no> In-Reply-To: <98DE2314-1233-4C12-8346-5D1240B9BAAF@bsdimp.com> (Warner Losh's message of "Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:58:05 -0600") References: <CAGOYWV80vTTQbvSjvNa6XBzBiKy%2BjnGantkUH_RO=8prxoHmyQ@mail.gmail.com> <201403181404.52197.jhb@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403182230140.45496@wonkity.com> <201403191523.33275.jhb@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403191407240.52822@wonkity.com> <86zjkkr5ma.fsf@nine.des.no> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403210740240.13682@wonkity.com> <86fvmbzlbn.fsf@nine.des.no> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403211030450.14887@wonkity.com> <86mwgj7aru.fsf@nine.des.no> <1395422417.81853.14.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <98DE2314-1233-4C12-8346-5D1240B9BAAF@bsdimp.com>
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Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes: > It does serve a useful purpose, though, which is why it has endured. > If you were to have a man page that said =E2=80=98Putc(3) returns =E2=80= =A6=E2=80=99 then the > automated tools (and web links) that find Putc.3 wouldn=E2=80=99t be able= to since > it doesn=E2=80=99t exist. Moreover - if FreeBSD were written in Pascal, it might not matter, but in C, _exit(2) and _Exit(3) are two different functions. (I'm sure there are other examples without a leading underscore) (eww, starting a sentence with a non-alphabetic character would be even worse...) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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