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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next prev parent 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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