Alejandro Colomar writes: > Hi Sam, > >> Date: 2026-08-03 15:05:36+0100 >> From: Sam James >> >> Alejandro Colomar writes: >> > [...] >> > He doesn't need to have read every word of the glibc manual, but this >> > precise text he could have read it, because it was mentioned by Paul in >> > this thread (different subthread) prior (19:28 UTC) to his message, and >> > reviewed by me also prior (20:31 UTC) to his message (23:27 UTC). >> >> I often reply as I go rather than reading all other emails around that >> time. I don't think you should assume he read those emails and >> deliberately neglected their contents. > > Me too. But eventually I respond to those other emails, and rectify > when that new information conflicts with something I said with > incomplete information. So far, Collin didn't rectify. Well, give him a chance. > >> > >> > Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 14:28:33 -0500 >> > From: Paul Eggert >> > Message-ID: <8715af47-867c-417a-8ef5-7b4b7ceb2c31@cs.ucla.edu> >> > >> > Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 22:31:59 +0200 >> > From: Alejandro Colomar >> > Message-ID: >> > >> > Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:27:21 -0700 >> > From: Collin Funk >> > Message-ID: <875x1sp0h2.fsf@gmail.com> >> > >> > Also relevant is the fact that he accused me of "slowly" documenting >> > "personal preferences". His wording implies that it wasn't there >> > before. Maybe I misunderstood, though. I'd be happy to rectify if I >> > was wrong. >> >> I think he meant in general? > > I don't interpret that. I guess he can defend himself and clarify. Right. > >> > While he didn't need to know whether it was there before, it would be >> > good to make some effort to learn whether that was the case, before >> > making such a serious accusation. >> >> I took it to be that you (as you've said yourself) have a different >> style from Michael and this does involve a more opinionated (you may not >> call it that) approach. He's commenting on that being unfavourable to >> him. I didn't think that was contentious, more that you see it as your >> duty wrt education. > > I only see my style slightly different than Michael's, but not > necessarily in the sense of involving a more opinionated approach. See > the other messages where I've shown how Michael had done the exact same > thing with strlcpy(3) a long time ago. > > On reconsideration, and after researching what Michael really did, > I think I was wrong saying we have a different style at all. I believe > we've had the same style. We just had different topics of expertise. > > Michael has had his own share of opinionated comments in manual pages. Yes, seeing the quotes you posted in another reply, I didn't realise he'd written those! > > > Have a lovely day! > Alex