Re: [PATCH v3] NULL.3const: Add documentation for NULL

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi Ingo,

On 7/27/22 15:11, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>>>>> +.SH CONFORMING TO
>>
>>>> That should be ".SH STANDARDS".
>>
>>> We use CONFORMING TO in Linux.  Don't know why; just history, I guess.
>>> See man-pages(7).
>>
>> Weird.
>>
>> I failed to find a single instance of "CONFORMING TO" in AT&T UNIX
>> (including v6, PWB, v7, 32v, v8, v10, System III, SVR1, SVR2) nor in
>> any version of UCB CSRG BSD.  So considering that System V and BSD are
>> widely considered the two main original branches of the development
>> of Unix-like operating systems and Linux is often considered to have
>> drawn inspiration from both, the section name "CONFORMING TO" does
>> not appear to be a UNIX thing.  For example, Aeleen Frisch, "Essential
>> System Administration", O'Reilly, Cambridge 1995, considers Linux
>> as slightly more influenced by 4.3BSD than by System V Release 3.
>>
>> STANDARDS, on the other hand, is present since 4.3BSD-Reno (June 1990).
>>
>> 4.3BSD-Reno predates the first version of the Linux kernel by more than
>> a year, and the first Linux manual pages probably for longer than that.
>>
>> So i have no idea where "CONFORMING TO" may have come from.
> 
> I don't like the idea of being inconsistent with other Unix systems with 
> no good reason.  's/CONFORMING TO/STANDARDS/' might happen some day; 
> just saying.

I've already changed that.  I didn't yet push to <kernel.org>.  The 
patch is in my server, for you to check: 
<http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=8aac6f8f512e46a008140b93956b6c414ab13a04>. 
  It didn't fit in an email (the mailing list is limited to 100KB).

I'll probably push tomorrow.

Cheers,

Alex

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Alejandro Colomar
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