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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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@@ -228,11 +228,19 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe env locale
.hy
.ad
.sp 1
-.SH VERSIONS
-.BR getnameinfo ()
-is provided since glibc 2.1.
.SH STANDARDS
-POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, RFC\ 2553.
+POSIX.1-2008.
+RFC\ 2553.
+.SH HISTORY
+glibc 2.1.
+POSIX.1-2001.
+.PP
+Before glibc 2.2, the
+.I hostlen
+and
+.I servlen
+arguments were typed as
+.IR size_t .
.SH NOTES
In order to assist the programmer in choosing reasonable sizes
for the supplied buffers,
@@ -264,13 +272,6 @@ in recent versions of BIND's
header file.
The latter is a guess based on the services listed
in the current Assigned Numbers RFC.
-.PP
-Before glibc 2.2, the
-.I hostlen
-and
-.I servlen
-arguments were typed as
-.IR size_t .
.SH EXAMPLES
The following code tries to get the numeric hostname and service name,
for a given socket address.