On 22 March 2014 08:04, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman_at_gmail.com> wrote: > 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 Hello, Thx guys for such big interested of the fdclose function :) When we decide how API will look and how the fdclose function will behave then I will correct man page. Thx, MariuszReceived on Tue Mar 25 2014 - 21:29:49 UTC
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