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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:29:49 +0100
From:      Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Cc:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, jilles@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: Hello fdclose
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On 22 March 2014 08:04, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote=
:
>>
>> Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
>> > It does serve a useful purpose, though, which is why it has endured.
>> > If you were to have a man page that said 'Putc(3) returns ...' then th=
e
>> > automated tools (and web links) that find Putc.3 wouldn't be able to
>> > since
>> > it doesn't exist.
>>
>> Moreover - if FreeBSD were written in Pascal, it might not matter, but
>> in C, _exit(2) and _Exit(3) are two different functions.
>>
>> (I'm sure there are other examples without a leading underscore)
>>
>> (eww, starting a sentence with a non-alphabetic character would be even
>> worse...)
>
>
> 3Com was once a very important networking company. 3M still is.
>
> /me duck and runs.
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
> E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com

Hello,

Thx guys for such big interested of the fdclose function :)
When we decide how API will look and how the fdclose function will
behave then I will correct man page.

Thx,
Mariusz



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