Re: [PATCH] open_wmemstream(3): Describe (as part of fmemopen.3)

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On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  thanks for all the comments.
>
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:53:26PM -0500, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> One thing that also is good to include is version information.
>> Unfortunately the page was lacking a VERSIONS section, when it really
>> should have had one.  I added the following:
>>
>> diff --git a/man3/fmemopen.3 b/man3/fmemopen.3
>> index 2b87b69..0d540b5 100644
>> --- a/man3/fmemopen.3
>> +++ b/man3/fmemopen.3
>> @@ -160,6 +160,13 @@ pointer.
>>  Otherwise, NULL is returned and the global variable
>>  .I errno
>>  is set to indicate the error.
>> +.SH VERSIONS
>> +.BR fmemopen ()
>> +is available since glibc 2.2.
>> +.BR open_memstream ()
>> +is available since glibc 2.0.
>> +.BR open_wmemstream ()
>> +is available since glibc 2.4.
>>  .SH "CONFORMING TO"
>>  These functions are GNU extensions.
>>  .\" Jan 06: But they appear to be going up for standardization by
>>
>> Look right to you?
>
> open_wmemstream() yes. fmemopen() is much much older (bear in mind that
> there was old GNU stdio library before GNU libio, and it contained
> fmemopen() too - I have no idea which libc version "Thu Aug 8 00:39:56
> 1991 +0000" is in, though) and same for open_memstream (Sun Jul 28
> 00:22:19 1991 +0000).

Thanks for catching that.  I made the text

.BR fmemopen ()
and
.BR open_memstream ()
were already available in glibc 1.0.x.
.BR open_wmemstream ()
is available since glibc 2.4.

Cheers,

Michael

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