memset (was Re: [PATCH] man7/: ffix)

2023-03-24 Thread Douglas McIlroy
> Can anyone justify the existence of memset(3) in libc? Memset is in the C standard; bzero is not. End of story. Bzero is justly deprecated on the man page I have (2008-08-06 via Red Hat). I avoid bzero and compile with "gcc -std=c17 -Wall -pedantic -extra" to raise a flag when I stray from the

Re: [PATCH] man7/: ffix

2023-03-23 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hey Branden! On 3/23/23 23:29, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > >> Going more into what concerns me, which is man3, I often miss an >> ARGUMENTS (or PARAMETERS, to be more precise) section in the pages for >> functions. Sometimes it would be just one line per argument, but in >> other cases it would

Re: [PATCH] man7/: ffix

2023-03-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2023-03-12T22:39:20+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On 3/12/23 17:44, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > In groff 1.23.0 (which still doesn't have its final tag :( ), the > > man(7) macro package remaps the `I` (italic) style to `BI` > > (bold+italic) if it is available and the font being

Re: [PATCH] man7/: ffix

2023-03-12 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, On 3/12/23 17:44, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Short answer: take the patch. :) I pushed it earlier today. :) > At 2023-03-12T12:02:04+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> Should I apply this patch? I'm not sure if the variable part should >> be bold because it's part o

Re: [PATCH] man7/: ffix

2023-03-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, Short answer: take the patch. :) At 2023-03-12T12:02:04+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Should I apply this patch? I'm not sure if the variable part should > be bold because it's part of a heading or roman because it's variable > part within italics. How would you format it? > diff

[PATCH] man7/: ffix

2023-03-12 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar --- Hi Branden, Should I apply this patch? I'm not sure if the variable part should be bold because it's part of a heading or roman because it's variable part within italics. How would you format it? Thanks, Alex man7/time_namespaces.7 | 2 +- man7/user_na