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...) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ 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"
