Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:58:12 +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: <20020124185812.C74534@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20020124174908.G361-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> References: <20020124184624.B74534@sunbay.com> <20020124174908.G361-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:52:31PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > RE>On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:49:21PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > RE>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, David Malone wrote: > RE>> > RE>> DM>> Cool, thanks! > RE>> DM> > RE>> DM>Bruch pointed out that we still have a small problem with the man > RE>> DM>page. Both brk and sbrk are now library functions, but their man > RE>> DM>page is still in section 2. > RE>> > RE>> sbrk is a library function, that is based on SYS_break. SYS_break is a > RE>> system call, implemented in vm_unix.c (obreak()). So we would have to > RE>> split the man page between sections 2 and 3. > RE>> > RE>> We should probably also add a .St -susv2 in the man page, now that we are > RE>> conform to the standard. > RE>> > RE>Neither sbrk() nor brk() are part of the POSIX.1-2001. > > but of the Single Unix Specification, Version 2 which -susv2 refers to: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/brk.html > > POSIX.1-2001 is SUSv3 > I don't see much point in documenting conformance to an obsolete standard. Do you? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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