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From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
To: seth.i.mcdonald@gmail.com
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>,
	 Seth McDonald <sethmcmail@pm.me>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] sys/man2/sysctl.2: HISTORY: wfix
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:59:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zf70xxog.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1477de655f76e1e6e85c12cb03c068b120704511.1767072049.git.sethmcmail@pm.me>

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seth.i.mcdonald@gmail.com writes:

> From: Seth McDonald <sethmcmail@pm.me>
>
> Include 4.4BSD in the initial list in HISTORY, rather than stating the
> function's origin in 4.4BSD as a full sentence. This is more concise and
> consistent with other man pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Seth McDonald <sethmcmail@pm.me>
> ---
>  man/man2/sysctl.2 | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man/man2/sysctl.2 b/man/man2/sysctl.2
> index c59acff553..6566c4f5be 100644
> --- a/man/man2/sysctl.2
> +++ b/man/man2/sysctl.2
> @@ -73,11 +73,10 @@ .SH ERRORS
>  .SH STANDARDS
>  Linux.
>  .SH HISTORY
> +4.4BSD,
>  Linux 1.3.57.
>  Removed in Linux 5.5, glibc 2.32.
>  .P
> -It originated in
> -4.4BSD.
>  Only Linux has the
>  .I /proc/sys
>  mirror, and the object naming schemes differ between Linux and 4.4BSD,

It actually existed before 4.4BSD. It existed in 2.11BSD at least [1].

Collin

[1] https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.11BSD/src/man/man3/sysctl.3

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-12-30  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-30  6:41 [PATCH v1 0/4] Miscellaneous fixes seth.i.mcdonald
2025-12-30  6:42 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] man/man2/syscall.2: Add HISTORY section seth.i.mcdonald
2025-12-30  6:42 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] sys/man2/sysctl.2: HISTORY: wfix seth.i.mcdonald
2025-12-30  6:59   ` Collin Funk [this message]
2025-12-30  7:18     ` Seth McDonald
2025-12-30  7:27       ` G. Branden Robinson
2025-12-30  7:40         ` Collin Funk
2025-12-30  7:53           ` G. Branden Robinson
2025-12-30 11:34             ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-30  7:22     ` Is 2.11BSD < 4BSD? It depends. (was: [PATCH v1 2/4] sys/man2/sysctl.2: HISTORY: wfix) G. Branden Robinson
2025-12-30  7:35       ` Is 2.11BSD < 4BSD? It depends Collin Funk
2025-12-30  6:42 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] man/man2/utime.2: SYNOPSIS: ffix seth.i.mcdonald
2025-12-30  6:42 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] man/man2const/F_GETSIG.2const: HISTORY: tfix seth.i.mcdonald

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