Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:10:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/12372: man page HISTORY for strdup is wrong Message-ID: <199906242210.PAA73431@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/12372; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net> Cc: sheldonh@FreeBSD.ORG, mika@cs.caltech.edu, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/12372: man page HISTORY for strdup is wrong Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:09:46 -0400 [Cc'd to -bugs instead of -doc] [Re: correct HISTORY of strdup(3)] On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 12:28:58PM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote: > > states that strdup first appeared in 4.4BSD. It's been so long > since I used a 4.2 system, I can't remember if it had strdup or > not. Either way, it looks like the HISTORY really is incorrect. Yes, although I think it was listed as "under development" in 43. References: http://man.he.net/man3/strdup http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/man/strdup.3.html http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/unix/4.3bsd-net2/lib/libc/string/strdup.3.Z The first reference is a copy of some strdup manpage, I think from Linux. It states that its strdup(3) function is conformant to SVID3 and BSD43. The 2nd and 3rd links are references to a BSD/386 manpage for strdup and to a manpage that appears to be the 43/net2 strdup manpage. Both the 2nd and 3rd links list strdup(3) as "Under development". If Mika (aka. the PR submitter, but Mika is such a cool-sounding name that I needed an excuse to say it twice) is right and it's not in 4.3-Tahoe, then it probably appeared in SVr3 and was quickly copied into 43-Reno (or Net/1). It's rather curious that it appears in SunOS 4.1.1 but not 43BSD, though... A link to a strdup(3) manpage dated Oct. 6, 1987, http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/cgi/rtfm/usr/local/man/man3/string.3 Hmm... Here's another one... This HPUX man seems to state that strdup appeared in SVr2... http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/doc/man/hpux/strxfrm.3c.html Anyways, I'm inclined to place it in SVr2. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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