From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 9 13:16:38 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl (amsfep15-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F0737B407; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:16:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org ([62.163.96.180]) by amsfep15-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20011009201337.WUNF12294.amsfep15-int.chello.nl@daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org>; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:13:37 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f99KBlX27563; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:11:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:11:47 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Brian Somers Cc: Mike Barcroft , 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> References: <20011009131856.X60461@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <200110091613.f99GDk600838@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200110091613.f99GDk600838@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -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/ What's one man's poison, is another's meat or drink... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message