On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@des.no> wrote:
> Warner Losh <i...@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 the > > 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: rkober...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
