Re: the Linux man-pages as an educational tool

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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> Date: 2026-08-03 01:43:01+0200
> From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
>
> > Date: 2026-08-03 01:41:39+0200
> > From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
> >
> > > Date: 2026-08-03 01:37:30+0200
> > > From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
> > >
> > > Hi Collin,
> > > 
> > > > Date: 2026-08-02 16:27:21-0700
> > > > From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
> > > >
> > > [...]
> > > > 
> > > > I can't help but wonder of what happens in WG 14 rejects this
> > > > controversial, as obvious by this thread, change. Will the man-pages
> > > > changes be reverted?
> > 
> > > > Or will we slowly watch them document personal
> > > > preferences instead of existing standards?
> > 
> > BTW, as I showed in another subthread, strncpy(3) did contain
> > opinionated comments well before I was involved.  If you're really
> > going to accuse me of that, better make sure you get the history right.
> 
> Oh, and while at it, please also read my review of glibc's own
> opinionated and bogus documentation about string truncation.

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