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Date:      Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:35:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc Makefile
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010126203427.83522A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101270353320.2643-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Bruce Evans wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> > to the application.  Do we even want to mention that some calls
> > are renamed to __sys_foo?
> 
> No.  Man pages shouldn't mention any implementation details.

But they should have a cute thread safety table in the style of Solaris
man pages, letting developers know if they're employing a base system
(syscall, library) call that is *not* thread-safe (either at this point,
or in general).

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services




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