From owner-cvs-share Sat Apr 13 10:29:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-share Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA04791 for cvs-share-outgoing; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 10:29:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA04733 Sat, 13 Apr 1996 10:28:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA00937; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:28:12 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA18885; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:28:11 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA21025; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:27:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604131727.TAA21025@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 timeout.9 To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:27:47 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org, joerg@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604131724.DAA13316@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 14, 96 03:24:07 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > Added: share/man/man9 timeout.9 > > Log: > > Describe timeout() and untimeout(). > > You're documenting bad interfaces faster than I can fix them :-). These > functions should have taken times in microseconds yesterday and > nanoseconds tomorrow. :) Feel free to correct the man pages. I only figured, if we never start writing them, they will never be finished. > sleep(9) no longer exists. Should the man page be renamed? No. sleep(9) is just a generic name for the entire facility. It's only that the `deprecated' should be turned into `dead'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)