Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:27:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org, joerg@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 timeout.9 Message-ID: <199604131727.TAA21025@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604131724.DAA13316@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 14, 96 03:24:07 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Bruce Evans wrote: > > Added: share/man/man9 timeout.9 > > Log: > > Describe timeout() and untimeout(). > > You're documenting bad interfaces faster than I can fix them :-). These > functions should have taken times in microseconds yesterday and > nanoseconds tomorrow. :) Feel free to correct the man pages. I only figured, if we never start writing them, they will never be finished. > sleep(9) no longer exists. Should the man page be renamed? No. sleep(9) is just a generic name for the entire facility. It's only that the `deprecated' should be turned into `dead'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199604131727.TAA21025>