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Branden Robinson" , Paul Eggert , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: Re: the Linux man-pages as an educational tool In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <15288158.RDIVbhacDa@cagnes> <20260802000833.zpu27l7ibvrbouna@illithid> <87cxw1s58a.fsf@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 2 Aug 2026, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > If was described as providing functions that exclusively > handle strings, then programmers that only need to handle strings would > naturally self-limit to functions from this header file. A one-line change to the description of in the C standard, from "String handling" to "String and memory utilities" or similar, to make clear it's *not* (and never has been) exclusively handling strings, might well make sense. That's all the change that I think makes sense in this area. -- Joseph S. 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