Hi Alejandro, Alejandro Colomar wrote on Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 02:08:18PM +0200: > CAVEATS is an interesting section from OpenBSD. It is no doubt nice when credit is given to OpenBSD, but in this case, it happens to be undeserved. ;-) I see the following early uses of ".SH CAVEATS": * 4.2BSD execve(2), released September 1983, author unknown * 4.3BSD-Tahoe patch(1), released June 1988, author: Larry Wall * 4.3BSD-Reno amd(8), released June 1990, author: Jan-Simon Pendry * 4.4BSD strftime(3), released June 1993, author: Arnold Robbins * 4.4BSD gzip(1), released June 1993, author (unsure) Jean-loup Gailly ? * 4.4BSD mount_kernfs(8), released June 1993, author: Jan-Simon Pendry The first instance of ".Sh CAVEATS" i found is: * 4.4BSD-Lite1 realpath(3), released April 1994, author Keith Bostic It doesn't look as if the UC CSRG used CAVEATS in additional files. Standardization was decided in NetBSD during a discussion on <tech-userlevel@xxxxxxxxxx> leading to this commit: /src/share/misc/mdoc.template revision 1.6 date: 2002-07-10 09:45:18 +0000; author: yamt; state: Exp; lines: +2 -1; add CAVEATS section. discussed on tech-userlevel. The login name "yamt" belongs to YAMAMOTO Takashi. It was then quickly picked up in OpenBSD by Jason McIntyre. So the section has a tradition of almost 40 years and has been standardized in *BSD for about two decades, even though it was not originally a BSD invention. Yours, Ingo
