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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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@@ -249,26 +249,26 @@ Since glibc 2.16,
the
.BR fmtmsg ()
function uses a lock to protect the static variable, so it is thread-safe.
-.SH VERSIONS
-.BR fmtmsg ()
-is provided since glibc 2.1.
.SH STANDARDS
-The functions
+.TP
.BR fmtmsg ()
-and
-.BR addseverity (3),
-and environment variables
+.TQ
.B MSGVERB
-and
-.B SEV_LEVEL
-come from System V.
-.PP
-The function
+POSIX.1-2008.
+.SH HISTORY
+.TP
.BR fmtmsg ()
-and the environment variable
+System V.
+POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008.
+glibc 2.1.
+.TP
.B MSGVERB
-are described in POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008.
-.SH NOTES
+System V.
+POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008.
+.TP
+.B SEV_LEVEL
+System V.
+.PP
System V and UnixWare man pages tell us that these functions
have been replaced by "pfmt() and addsev()" or by "pfmt(),
vpfmt(), lfmt(), and vlfmt()", and will be removed later.