Hi Zack, On 10/12/20 2:53 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 3:04 PM Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha > <libc-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I think this page needs a big overhaul. >> >> First of all, it's a very big page, >> where it's a bit difficult to go to the subsection you want. >> Then, the examples are incomplete. >> And also, the language of the page is weird. > > <sys/queue.h> was, IIUC, originally an implementation detail of the > original BSD kernel, not intended for use elsewhere. Elsewhere started > using it anyway, and that's why glibc has it; there was, at one time, > enough user space software that assumed its existence to make a > compatibility implementation worthwhile. But I don't think its use > should be encouraged in new software, and in fact I'm not sure it > should be documented at all. Thanks for the input. >From my perspective, not documenting something is a poor way of discouraging the use of that something. Instead, some people just use it badly. I've no problem with adding a note discouraging the use of the APIs, if that's the rough consensus, though. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
