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Date:      Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:58:55 +0200
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r196752 - head/lib/libc/stdtime
Message-ID:  <20090904085854.GA1311@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20090904075338.GA90644@nagual.pp.ru>
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On 2009.09.04 11:53:39 +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:21:09PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > % The value of the argument must be representable as an
> > % .Vt "unsigned char"
> > % or the value of
> > % .Dv EOF .
> > 
> > This is the same as in POSIX except the POSIX wording is better (e.g.,
> > the above only says implicitly that the behaviour is undefined if
> > "must" is not satisfied).  It took too many commits (revs 1.8-1.10) to
> > get this far.
> 
> BTW, do we have permissions for direct POSIX quotes?

Yes.  I thought I had made a web page about it, but I can't find it
now, but see this:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2005-January/006862.html

We haven't used it much AFAIK, but there are a few manual pages which
does make use of POSIX text.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen



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