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

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

Hi Michael,

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote on Thu, May 08, 2014 at 11:55:36AM +0200:
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Ingo Schwarze <schwarze-mcycREo4Un4@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 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.

> Just fixed: s/until/in/

Actually, what i intended to express with that "until" was:

  "in the GNU C library at least as early as 1992"

Glibc development started in 1987.  Clearly glibc didn't have stpcpy
before 1989, or early textutils/fileutils wouldn't have had their
own copy with a 1989 FSF Copyright.  The glibc ChangeLog says
Roland McGrath fixed a bug in stpcpy in 1992, and *after that*,
the file has a 1992 FSF Copyright.

That doesn't strictly exclude stpcpy may have appeared in glibc
in 1989, 1990, or 1991.

Yours,
  Ingo
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