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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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@@ -426,6 +426,10 @@ in that directory can be renamed or deleted only by the owner
of the file, by the owner of the directory, and by a privileged
process.
.SH STANDARDS
+POSIX.1-2008.
+.SH HISTORY
+POSIX.1-2001.
+.PP
POSIX.1-1990 did not describe the
.BR S_IFMT ,
.BR S_IFSOCK ,
@@ -441,16 +445,13 @@ constants, but instead specified the use of
the macros
.BR S_ISDIR ()
and so on.
-The
-.B S_IF*
-constants are present in POSIX.1-2001 and later.
.PP
The
.BR S_ISLNK ()
and
.BR S_ISSOCK ()
macros were not in
-POSIX.1-1996, but both are present in POSIX.1-2001;
+POSIX.1-1996;
the former is from SVID 4, the latter from SUSv2.
.PP
UNIX\ V7 (and later systems) had