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Date:      Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:11:47 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/string strnstr.c Makefile.inc strstr.3 src/include string.h
Message-ID:  <20011009221147.D60461@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <200110091613.f99GDk600838@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
References:  <asmodai@wxs.nl> <20011009131856.X60461@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <200110091613.f99GDk600838@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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-On [20011009 19:16], Brian Somers (brian@freebsd-services.com) wrote:
>> >If not, shouldn't there be a mention that this is a FreeBSD specific
>> >API in the man page ?
>> 
>> We don't have a consistent precedent for doing so.
>
>reallocf() seems like a reasonable sample.

One swallow does not make a summer. :)

What I meant was: that we do not do this on a consistent basis.
Basically I am more of the opinion that if a function does not have a
document standard in the manual page it is not a standard.
This is one of the reasons I am slowly working my way through the manual
pages to update and revise them [and sometimes softly failing ;) ].

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|freebsd.org|xmach.org]
Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder, finger asmodai@ninth-circle.dnsalias.net
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/
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