Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/stdio

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 07:00:52AM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> True enough. But I've generally followed "NetBSD-specific vs. standard"
> dichotomy. In the ideal case one could mention if a function is available
> in OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, etc. too, but we have enough trouble
> maintaining .Nx alone.

As a follow-up: I raised this concern on linux-man@ list some time ago.

Linux manual pages try to document also other systems. While the intentions
are good (to improve portability), the documentation often just ends up
spreading misinformation. For instance, numerous notes about BSD systems
that were written in the 1990s are just plain wrong today. Yet those are
still presented in the Linux manual pages as facts.

- Jukka.