Hi Michael, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote on Fri, May 02, 2014 at 03:58:36PM +0200: > the patch seems more or less okay to me, but given that The AmigaDOS > compiler is the merely the oldest instance you could find, I'd prefer > a slightly more open wording. > How would this be: > > [[ > --- a/man3/stpcpy.3 > +++ b/man3/stpcpy.3 > @@ -76,9 +76,11 @@ function is thread-safe. > .SH CONFORMING TO > This function was added to POSIX.1-2008. > Before that, it was not part of > -the C or POSIX.1 standards, nor customary on UNIX systems, but was not a > -GNU invention either. > -Perhaps it came from MS-DOS. > +the C or POSIX.1 standards, nor customary on UNIX systems. > +It first appeared at least as early as 1986, > +in the Lattice C AmigaDOS compiler, > +then in the GNU fileutils and GNU textutils in 1989, > +and in the GNU C library until 1992. > It is also present on the BSDs. > .SH BUGS > This function may overrun the buffer > > ]] > > ? Yes, that seems a safer claim, and it reads very well. I like your wording. Thank you for looking into this, Ingo -- 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
