Hello Ingo, On 05/08/2014 01:23 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > 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. Ahhh got it now. I changed 'in' to 'by'. (Das deutsches Wort 'bis' kann auf englisch entweder 'by' oder 'until' sein. 'By' für eine Sache, die _an_ einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt abgeschlossen ist, 'until' für eine Sache, die _dauert_ bis zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt. Ganz normale Fehler von deutsch nach englisch; I should have spotted it already ;-).) Mfg aus Muenchen, 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
