From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nanno Langstraat Subject: Re: New manpage for betoh64() and friends Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:09:58 +0100 Message-ID: <4973C4D6.8010902@ii.nl> References: <4873E122.1010504@ii.nl> <496DBD70.2010601@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <496DBD70.2010601-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Michael Kerrisk Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Michael Kerrisk wrote: > The version of the page that is currently committed for release in > man-pages-3.17 is shown below. Let me know if you see anything > that needs fixing. > > .SH "CONFORMING TO" > These functions are non-standard, but present on the BSDs, > where the required header file is > .I > instead of > .IR . > Alright, so it turns out that this is not accurate because of Ulrich Drepper's beNtoh() versus OpenBSD's betohN() deviation. (and FreeBSD into the mix is even more muddled: they got an earful from Theo de Raadt over this issue) Suggestion: .SH "CONFORMING TO" These functions are non-standard. The BSDs contain similar but not wholly identical functions in header file .I (instead of glibc's .IR ). It grates that this mealy-mouthed text is longer than the source changes required to fix the differences, but hey. Nanno -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html