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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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