Re: [PATCH v3 07/13] libc.7: ffix

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi Branden,

On 1/6/23 08:16, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> Where did this idea of separating it in synopses come from? Maybe
>> logic thinking, such as placing the period outside of quotes...
> 
> My _guess_ as to the _reason_ is as I said earlier--to reinforce the
> idea that the optional arguments are whitespace-separated.  As for where
> it came from, the strongest historical claim I can readily make is that
> it appears in the earliest Unix man pages for which we have hard copy.
> 
> So that would be the ar(I) page in the (First Edition) Unix Programmer's
> Manual, dated 3 November 1971.  (Image attached.)

Interesting.

> 
>> So, I guess I'll pick that patch.  I'll tell you if I do.
> 
> When you've reported one as applied, should I drop it from my further
> revisions of the patch group?

Yes.  When I report that I applied a patch, it means that I applied it to my 
main branch, and that it will imminently be pushed to the master branch at 
kernel.org.  Some times it is immediate, and some times I delay it for a few 
hours or days, if I have patches that concern me in the branch.

I pushed my main branch to my own remote so that you can rebase on top of that 
(if I later remove the bzero patch from there, it shouldn't create any conflicts 
to your patches).

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> 
> Regards,
> Branden

Cheers,

Alex

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