Re: [patch] stpcpy.3, stpncpy.3: Correct history

[Ingo Schwarze <schwarze-mcycREo4Un4@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Michael,

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote on Fri, May 02, 2014 at 03:58:36PM +0200:

> the patch seems more or less okay to me, but given that The AmigaDOS
> compiler is the merely the oldest instance you could find, I'd prefer
> a slightly more open wording.
> How would this be:
> 
> [[
> --- a/man3/stpcpy.3
> +++ b/man3/stpcpy.3
> @@ -76,9 +76,11 @@ function is thread-safe.
>  .SH CONFORMING TO
>  This function was added to POSIX.1-2008.
>  Before that, it was not part of
> -the C or POSIX.1 standards, nor customary on UNIX systems, but was not a
> -GNU invention either.
> -Perhaps it came from MS-DOS.
> +the C or POSIX.1 standards, nor customary on UNIX systems.
> +It first appeared at least as early as 1986,
> +in the Lattice C AmigaDOS compiler,
> +then in the GNU fileutils and GNU textutils in 1989,
> +and in the GNU C library until 1992.
>  It is also present on the BSDs.
>  .SH BUGS
>  This function may overrun the buffer
> 
> ]]
> 
> ?

Yes, that seems a safer claim, and it reads very well.
I like your wording.

Thank you for looking into this,
  Ingo
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