Hi Michael, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote on Thu, May 08, 2014 at 11:55:36AM +0200: > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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/ Actually, what i intended to express with that "until" was: "in the GNU C library at least as early as 1992" Glibc development started in 1987. Clearly glibc didn't have stpcpy before 1989, or early textutils/fileutils wouldn't have had their own copy with a 1989 FSF Copyright. The glibc ChangeLog says Roland McGrath fixed a bug in stpcpy in 1992, and *after that*, the file has a 1992 FSF Copyright. That doesn't strictly exclude stpcpy may have appeared in glibc in 1989, 1990, or 1991. Yours, 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
