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Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:05:28 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ThreadId: ANFeMez8yEXZ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:05:08 -0500 From: "Zack Weinberg" To: "Alejandro Colomar" Cc: "Vincent Lefevre" , "Jan Kara" , "Alexander Viro" , "Christian Brauner" , "Rich Felker" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, "GNU libc development" Message-Id: <29f34ba2-a059-4d7b-891b-d2e8c4ed7754@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20250516143957.GB5388@qaa.vinc17.org> <20250517133251.GY1509@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <5jm7pblkwkhh4frqjptrw4ll4nwncn22ep2v7sli6kz5wxg5ik@pbnj6wfv66af> <8c47e10a-be82-4d5b-a45e-2526f6e95123@app.fastmail.com> <20250524022416.GB6263@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <1571b14d-1077-4e81-ab97-36e39099761e@app.fastmail.com> <20260120174659.GE6263@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <1ec25e49-841e-4b04-911d-66e3b9ff4471@app.fastmail.com> Subject: Re: [RFC v1] man/man2/close.2: CAVEATS: Document divergence from POSIX.1-2024 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 22, 2026, at 8:02 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 07:33:58PM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote: > [...] > >> (Alejandro, do you have a preference between -man >> and -mdoc markup?) > > Strong preference for man(7). OK. >> close(),=E2=80=9D below. > > Punctuation like commas should go outside of the quotes (yes, I know > some styles do that, but we don't). Will correct. >> HISTORY >> The close() system call was present in Unix V7. > > That would be simply stated as: > > V7. Looking at other really old system calls (fork(), open(), read(), _exit(= ), link()), they all say "SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001" and that's what this one said = too, before I changed it. I think I'll put it back the way it was. zw