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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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@@ -126,28 +126,30 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.hy
.ad
.sp 1
-.SH VERSIONS
+.SH STANDARDS
+.TP
+.BR encrypt ()
+.TQ
+.BR setkey ()
+POSIX.1-2008.
+.TP
+.BR encrypt_r ()
+.TQ
+.BR setkey_r ()
+None.
+.SH HISTORY
+Removed in glibc 2.28.
+.PP
Because they employ the DES block cipher,
which is no longer considered secure,
-.BR encrypt (),
-.BR encrypt_r (),
-.BR setkey (),
-and
-.BR setkey_r ()
-were removed in glibc 2.28.
+these functions were removed from glibc.
Applications should switch to a modern cryptography library, such as
.BR libgcrypt .
-.SH STANDARDS
-.BR encrypt (),
-.BR setkey ():
-POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SUS, SVr4.
-.PP
-The functions
-.BR encrypt_r ()
-and
-.BR setkey_r ()
-are GNU extensions.
-.SH NOTES
+.TP
+.BR encrypt ()
+.TQ
+.BR setkey ()
+POSIX.1-2001, SUS, SVr4.
.SS Availability in glibc
See
.BR crypt (3).