Hi Ingo, On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Just fixed: s/until/in/ >> 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, You're welcome. Thanks for the patch! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
