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Branden Robinson" To: Joseph Myers Cc: Alejandro Colomar , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Keith Bostic , Mark Harris , Nevin Liber , JeanHeyd Meneide , Christopher Bazley , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Iker Pedrosa , "Evgeny Grin (Karlson2k)" , Kees Cook , bug-gnulib@gnu.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: on the irresponsibility of pursuing C language reform (was: [PATCH 1/2] man/man3/{mem,strn}*(): SYNOPSIS, STANDARDS: Document these as provided by ) Message-ID: <20260731215122.4p4aepsbgeoibx74@illithid> References: <784288e704183a4297aeaa3d13af8edab18bc1ea.1785532392.git.alx@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="utmw2w42qygtzpgj" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: --utmw2w42qygtzpgj Content-Type: text/plain; protected-headers=v1; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: on the irresponsibility of pursuing C language reform (was: [PATCH 1/2] man/man3/{mem,strn}*(): SYNOPSIS, STANDARDS: Document these as provided by ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Hi Joseph, At 2026-07-31T21:23:35+0000, Joseph Myers wrote: > I think it's irresponsible to use the man-pages project to promote > personal idiosyncratic ideas like this in preference to what's been > the standard location of functions since 1989. I'm sure I don't need to bring to your attention what a mine field string/`char` sequence/memory buffer handling has been in C since the language's inception. More to the point: what's a better forum for pursuing this attempt at reform that will both (a) reach a significant population of stakeholders who can variously red-team it and/or endorse it; and (b) has sufficient visibility that it can't easily be ignored by people who oppose reform in this area for whatever reason? I hope you do not wish to imply that a closed session of some committee, or unofficial backroom politicking would be preferable, nor that WG14 should close its doors to members of its user community who have not been vetted for a disinclination to boat-rocking. 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