Re: Hello fdclose

From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:04:30 -0700
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> wrote:

> Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> writes:
> > It does serve a useful purpose, though, which is why it has endured.
> > If you were to have a man page that said ‘Putc(3) returns …’ then the
> > automated tools (and web links) that find Putc.3 wouldn’t be able to
> since
> > it doesn’t exist.
>
> Moreover - if FreeBSD were written in Pascal, it might not matter, but
> in C, _exit(2) and _Exit(3) are two different functions.
>
> (I'm sure there are other examples without a leading underscore)
>
> (eww, starting a sentence with a non-alphabetic character would be even
> worse...)
>

3Com was once a very important networking company. 3M still is.

/me duck and runs.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman_at_gmail.com
Received on Sat Mar 22 2014 - 06:04:31 UTC

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