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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:46:24 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
Cc:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include unistd.h src/lib/libc/sys brk.2 src/libexec/rtld-aout rtld.c src/libexec/rtld-elf malloc.c
Message-ID:  <20020124184624.B74534@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020124143600.S361-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>
References:  <200201241325.aa07239@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20020124143600.S361-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>

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On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:49:21PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, David Malone wrote:
> 
> DM>> Cool, thanks!
> DM>
> DM>Bruch pointed out that we still have a small problem with the man
> DM>page. Both brk and sbrk are now library functions, but their man
> DM>page is still in section 2.
> 
> sbrk is a library function, that is based on SYS_break. SYS_break is a
> system call, implemented in vm_unix.c (obreak()). So we would have to
> split the man page between sections 2 and 3.
> 
> We should probably also add a .St -susv2 in the man page, now that we are
> conform to the standard.
> 
Neither sbrk() nor brk() are part of the POSIX.1-2001.


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