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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:55:53 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libalias alias_proxy.c 
Message-ID:  <14765.44313.881341.349343@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <64650712@toto.iv>

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Sheldon Hearn writes:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:34:20 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> I wouldn't feel comfortable with adding to the manual page of every
> non-reentrant function, a warning against its use in library code.
> To me, that feels like adding to every manual page for a utility that
> produces output, a warning that redirecting the output to a file with
> the shell ">" operator will destroy the existing contents of the file.
> :-)

Nah - that's documented in the shell man page, which is enough.

Whether or not a function is or isn't reentrant should be documented
somewhere. Can you suggest a better place than the man pages?

	<mike


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