https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84901 Bug ID: 84901 Summary: drand48() unduely declared obsolete Product: Documentation Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: man-pages Assignee: documentation_man-pages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reporter: nyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Regression: No The drand48() manual page ends with a note: "These functions are declared obsolete by SVID 3, which states that rand(3) should be used instead." The unsuspecting reader will see this, and think that these are obsolete functions he shouldn't use. But he most likely not know that "SVID 3" referred here is actually a document written 25 years ago, in 1989 (!), for SVr4. He will not know that Posix that came more than 10 years later did not call this function obsolete, and that till this day, it is not considered obsolete by Posix (see http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/drand48.html). So I think this statement about SVID 3 should be dropped. Or, if for some reason you want to keep it, at least add a clarification that this was in 1989 and standards that followed it do not consider these functions obsolete. Thanks! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- 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
