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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-17 17:08:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-30 15:14:55 +0200 |
| commit | 4131356cdab8d37fc395ca5466a0401c8573380c (patch) | |
| tree | 8c4c6f1c3172358b735b481cbbfdd9cc04b00ed9 /man3/makedev.3 | |
| parent | fd00f831b52d61a91d59cb3b46182869145d9700 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-4131356cdab8.tar.gz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/makedev.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/makedev.3 | 23 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/man3/makedev.3 b/man3/makedev.3 index e2ad24284c..40903f87b4 100644 --- a/man3/makedev.3 +++ b/man3/makedev.3 @@ -61,18 +61,16 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe .hy .ad .sp 1 +.SH VERSIONS +The BSDs expose the definitions for these macros via +.IR <sys/types.h> . .SH STANDARDS -The -.BR makedev (), -.BR major (), -and -.BR minor () -functions are not specified in POSIX.1, -but are present on many other systems. -.\" The BSDs, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Irix. +None. +.SH HISTORY +BSD, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Irix. .\" The header location is inconsistent: .\" Could be sys/mkdev.h, sys/sysmacros.h, or sys/types.h. -.SH NOTES +.PP These interfaces are defined as macros. Since glibc 2.3.3, they have been aliases for three GNU-specific functions: @@ -82,11 +80,10 @@ and .BR gnu_dev_minor (). The latter names are exported, but the traditional names are more portable. .PP -The BSDs expose the definitions for these macros via -.IR <sys/types.h> . Depending on the version, -glibc also exposes definitions for these macros from that -header file if suitable feature test macros are defined. +glibc also exposes definitions for these macros from +.IR <sys/types.h> +if suitable feature test macros are defined. However, this behavior was deprecated in glibc 2.25, .\" glibc commit dbab6577c6684c62bd2521c1c29dc25c3cac966f and since glibc 2.28, |