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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-17 17:08:01 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-30 15:14:55 +0200
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man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS, STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sections
- Add a new HISTORY section that covers the history of an API, both regarding implementations and regarding old standards. This was previously covered in VERSIONS, and in some cases in STANDARDS. - Repurpose VERSIONS to cover differing implementations in _current_ systems. - STANDARDS is reduced to only cover current versions of standards. That basically means only C11 (C99 has been superseeded by C11; C17 is just a bugfix of C11, so not really a new version), and POSIX.1-2008 (*-2001 was superseeded by *-2008; *-2017 was just a bugfix for *-2008). The section also mentions for example 'Linux', 'GNU' or 'BSD' when a non-standard API is Linux- or GNU-only or if it's (de-facto) standard in the BSDs. - In some cases content that should go into one of these sections was in NOTES. Move it from there to where it corresponds. - In the SYNOPSIS, I added [[deprecated]] in some functions that I found are deprecated by the relevant standards. - A few other related changes... Cc: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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@@ -56,21 +56,13 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.hy
.ad
.sp 1
-.SH VERSIONS
-.BR explicit_bzero ()
-first appeared in glibc 2.25.
.SH STANDARDS
-The
-.BR bzero ()
-function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001); use
-.BR memset (3)
-in new programs.
-POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of
-.BR bzero ().
-The
-.BR bzero ()
-function first appeared in 4.3BSD.
-.PP
+None.
+.SH HISTORY
+.TP
+.BR explicit_bzero ()
+glibc 2.25.
+.IP
The
.BR explicit_bzero ()
function is a nonstandard extension that is also present on some of the BSDs.
@@ -78,6 +70,12 @@ Some other implementations have a similar function, such as
.BR memset_explicit ()
or
.BR memset_s ().
+.TP
+.BR bzero ()
+4.3BSD.
+.IP
+Marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001.
+Removed in POSIX.1-2008.
.SH NOTES
The
.BR explicit_bzero ()