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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc Makefile
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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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