From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: sergeh@kernel.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com>,
"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>,
Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] man/man3/strpbrk.3: BUGS: Clarify the NAME
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:10:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <amU0Uy6f0HLE3mo-@devuan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <amO0kDE-r6ZFIr3t@AUS2MQ6190Y76.amd.com>
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Hi Serge,
On 2026-07-24T13:53:04-0500, sergeh@kernel.org wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2026 at 05:09:13PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
> > Cc: Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com>
> > Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
> > Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
>
> D'oh, i should have read this one before the comment to patch 1 :)
Heh! :)
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <sergeh@kernel.org>
Thanks!
Cheers,
Alex
>
> thanks
>
> > ---
> > man/man3/strfry.3 | 2 +-
> > man/man3/strpbrk.3 | 4 ++++
> > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/man/man3/strfry.3 b/man/man3/strfry.3
> > index 54ea313ea262..a65603af918a 100644
> > --- a/man/man3/strfry.3
> > +++ b/man/man3/strfry.3
> > @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
> > .\"
> > .TH strfry 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
> > .SH NAME
> > -strfry \- string fry
> > +strfry \- string fry (obfuscate)
> > .SH LIBRARY
> > Standard C library
> > .RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
> > diff --git a/man/man3/strpbrk.3 b/man/man3/strpbrk.3
> > index 6e5b79a48bbe..ee7a84f1a944 100644
> > --- a/man/man3/strpbrk.3
> > +++ b/man/man3/strpbrk.3
> > @@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ .SH STANDARDS
> > C11, POSIX.1-2008.
> > .SH HISTORY
> > POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
> > +.SH BUGS
> > +The name of this function is bad.
> > +It should have been named strchrs().
> > +The NAME section above reflects this.
> > .SH SEE ALSO
> > .BR memchr (3),
> > .BR strchr (3),
> > --
> > 2.53.0
> >
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-25 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-02 12:33 [PATCH v1 1/2] man/man3/str*.3: NAME: Explain the names Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-02 12:33 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] man/man3/strpbrk.3: BUGS: Clarify the NAME Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-03 5:03 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] man/man3/str*.3: NAME: Explain the names Mark Harris
2026-07-03 11:16 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-08 15:09 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] str*.3, mem*.3: " Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-08 15:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] man/man3/str*.3: " Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-24 18:52 ` sergeh
2026-07-25 22:09 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-08 15:09 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] man/man3/strpbrk.3: BUGS: Clarify the NAME Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-24 18:53 ` sergeh
2026-07-25 22:10 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2026-07-08 15:09 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] man/man3/mem*.3: NAME: Explain the names Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-24 18:55 ` sergeh
2026-07-08 15:09 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] man/man3/[b]string.3: Rewrite and merge Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-25 23:49 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] str*.3, mem*.3: NAME: Explain the names Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-25 23:49 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] man/man3/str*.3: " Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-25 23:50 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] man/man3/strpbrk.3: BUGS: Clarify the NAME Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-25 23:50 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] man/man3/mem*.3: NAME: Explain the names Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-25 23:50 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] man/man3/[b]string.3: Rewrite and merge Alejandro Colomar
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