From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Cc: linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cfree
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:09:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgNAkgxGJad18cAJ53eHAow=nJo6bvpAdLUVGA4+vcjZ11FdA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d5d6c55-8736-0eec-aaa4-7ec86f925109@jguk.org>
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 17:10, Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org> wrote:
>
> Hello
> Is it time to remove this old man page? it's two years since it was removed from glibc
>
> 2017-08-02: glibc 2.26 released
>
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/cfree.3.html
The general philosophy is to maintain historical info in man-pages,
since new manual pages may be installed on an old system. Also, people
may need to look at old code, and understand what it does.
Thanks,
Michael
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-24 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-23 15:10 cfree Jonny Grant
2020-06-23 15:26 ` cfree Ponnuvel Palaniyappan
2020-06-24 8:09 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2020-06-24 14:46 ` cfree Jonny Grant
2020-06-25 7:12 ` cfree Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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