> > Can we not just annotate each header listed with the originating > > standard, say: > > > > <stddef.h> (C) > > > > <sys/types.h> (POSIX) > > ... (POSIX) > > ... > > That may be a good idea; I've thought about doing that in the past; > but also thought that it's still too much noise. > Let's see what others think about it. My thought is that maybe we can add this kind of info later, providing we find a concise way to do it. But, for now, already the info in the page is useful as is, and I don't want to stop the momentum of Alex's work. So, for now, I think let's carry on the current style. > The downside is that it adds a lot of lines, > being harder to read for types with too many headers (e.g., size_t). That is also my concern. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
