Hi Jan, (Please CC bug reports to linux-man@) On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > > in man-pages 3.13 (version shipped by openSUSE), some man-pages have > notes about the new POSIX.1-2008 standard, e.g. gethostbyname: > > "CONFORMING TO > [...] > POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of gethostbyname(),..." > > This also affects gettimeofday at least. > > The man pages however do not tell which replacement POSIX provides. But > there is a page which mentions the replacement functions: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/time.html > (for gettimeofday) > > Could you incorporate this information about new functions into the man > pages (if not already done in >3.13)? That makes sense. For 3.20, I added such information to the pages where it is missing gettimeofday(2) getitimer(2) asctime(3) bcopy(3) bsd_signal(3) bzero(3) ctime(3) getcontext(3) getwd(3) ecvt(3) gcvt(3) index(3) gethostbyname(3) makecontext(3) scalb(3) And for these functions that POSIX.1-2008 marks obsolescent, I added the alternatives: siginterrupt(3) sigset(3) And for these functions, I added an explanation of why POSIX.1-2008 marks them as obsolescent: isalpha(3) (isascii(3)) toascii(3) Thanks for your report! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
