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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 /man5 | |
| 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 'man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/acct.5 | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/sysfs.5 | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/utmp.5 | 6 |
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/man5/acct.5 b/man5/acct.5 index 0665dd3617..d879dfde0a 100644 --- a/man5/acct.5 +++ b/man5/acct.5 @@ -129,13 +129,14 @@ struct acct_v3 { .EE .in .SH VERSIONS -The -.I acct_v3 -structure is defined since glibc 2.6. -.SH STANDARDS -Process accounting originated on BSD. Although it is present on most systems, it is not standardized, and the details vary somewhat between systems. +.SH STANDARDS +None. +.SH HISTORY +glibc 2.6. +.PP +Process accounting originated on BSD. .SH NOTES Records in the accounting file are ordered by termination time of the process. diff --git a/man5/sysfs.5 b/man5/sysfs.5 index 930c9714b2..26effac129 100644 --- a/man5/sysfs.5 +++ b/man5/sysfs.5 @@ -251,14 +251,10 @@ This information is mainly used for debugging. .TP .I /sys/power [To be documented] -.SH VERSIONS -The -.B sysfs -filesystem first appeared in Linux 2.6.0. .SH STANDARDS -The -.B sysfs -filesystem is Linux-specific. +Linux. +.SH HISTORY +Linux 2.6.0. .SH NOTES This manual page is incomplete, possibly inaccurate, and is the kind of thing that needs to be updated very often. diff --git a/man5/utmp.5 b/man5/utmp.5 index d1017f8185..eefb8241c3 100644 --- a/man5/utmp.5 +++ b/man5/utmp.5 @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ removed, record-keeping is turned off. .I /var/run/utmp .br .I /var/log/wtmp -.SH STANDARDS +.SH VERSIONS POSIX.1 does not specify a .I utmp structure, but rather one named @@ -242,7 +242,9 @@ Linux defines the structure to be the same as the .I utmp structure. -.SS Comparison with historical systems +.SH STANDARDS +Linux. +.SH HISTORY Linux utmp entries conform neither to v7/BSD nor to System V; they are a mix of the two. .PP |