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Date:      Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:13:29 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
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.BSF.4.21.0101272111540.8098-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010126203427.83522A-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Robert Watson wrote:

> 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).

Yes.  Also, the BUGS section should mention (non-transient) implementation
bugs.

Bruce



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