From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 22:29:49 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E9EC9D40; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:29:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22c.google.com (mail-ie0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 92B3FD66; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:29:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f172.google.com with SMTP id as1so1084775iec.3 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:29:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rbMCoYMAkXVkvD4h6AfOoA5Kf2bQGmesakmjUbhzQhs=; b=lUjm8AiYw3Lk2OspwwOWpuDAHKSQ0f6Ww8HLMPOKcRoJfUDmgsUcWgKYQ0jOoVOLbf VMvQLtSjpSQkH3xh95zcoVCYxLP2LSAmQpL5GXEahe2gyvq31Tu2Jg5p36lkOTS+r823 GvFkgyqhkKqxak2bAEW98HVd/3sT1vGbD90XHIResERAaCm7otwtMxfd5ZMWrG2Wocnu eWoGFl3dprI8kbbi+hgqwHLSERCRTqNu8MmVbrrhWn4u05YXvxMpdLGLgxbM01ghf9we 5sKVpTdTsCeXnkHiQwXsl8mQMqL1kf/xUKwFsEDzvf8TsMYsQyvFjgSP7klFEeoDRmUF 5Ggw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.228.65 with SMTP id jd1mr4014935icb.62.1395786589086; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:29:49 -0700 (PDT) Sender: oshogbo.vx@gmail.com Received: by 10.50.95.34 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:29:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201403181404.52197.jhb@freebsd.org> <201403191523.33275.jhb@freebsd.org> <86zjkkr5ma.fsf@nine.des.no> <86fvmbzlbn.fsf@nine.des.no> <86mwgj7aru.fsf@nine.des.no> <1395422417.81853.14.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <98DE2314-1233-4C12-8346-5D1240B9BAAF@bsdimp.com> <86a9cj6oo5.fsf@nine.des.no> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:29:49 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dtVUTIhiTd56UWKXqvv2AzvgNvk Message-ID: Subject: Re: Hello fdclose From: Mariusz Zaborski To: Kevin Oberman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Warren Block , Ian Lepore , FreeBSD Current , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, jilles@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=F8rgrav?= , Warner Losh X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:29:50 -0000 On 22 March 2014 08:04, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote= : >> >> Warner Losh 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