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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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@@ -120,13 +120,9 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe const:env
.ad
.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
-POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD.
-.SH NOTES
-POSIX.1 does not require
-.BR setenv ()
-or
-.BR unsetenv ()
-to be reentrant.
+POSIX.1-2008.
+.SH HISTORY
+POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD.
.PP
Prior to glibc 2.2.2,
.BR unsetenv ()
@@ -135,6 +131,12 @@ as returning
.IR void ;
more recent glibc versions follow the
POSIX.1-compliant prototype shown in the SYNOPSIS.
+.SH CAVEATS
+POSIX.1 does not require
+.BR setenv ()
+or
+.BR unsetenv ()
+to be reentrant.
.SH BUGS
POSIX.1 specifies that if
.I name