On 24/06/2020 09:09, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 17:10, Jonny Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hello >> Is it time to remove this old man page? it's two years since it was removed from glibc >> >> 2017-08-02: glibc 2.26 released >> >> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/cfree.3.html > > The general philosophy is to maintain historical info in man-pages, > since new manual pages may be installed on an old system. Also, people > may need to look at old code, and understand what it does. Fair enough. Although I would imagine anyone trying to use a function called cfree() would already understand they should use free() Could the key point that cfree() is deprecated and removed be highlighted at the top of the man page? I'd be temped to just have :- DEPRECATED This function should not be used, it was non-standard and removed in glibc version 2.26 2017-08-02. NAME cfree - free allocated memory Regards Jonny
