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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, |