Re: the Linux man-pages as an educational tool

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From: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>
To: Joseph Myers <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruno Haible <[email protected]>, [email protected], 
	[email protected], Collin Funk <[email protected]>, 
	"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]>, Paul Eggert <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: the Linux man-pages as an educational tool
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Hi Joseph,

> Date: 2026-08-03 19:45:06+0000
> From: Joseph Myers <[email protected]>
>
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2026, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
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> > > That's basically how it went with 'gets': The community realized it i=
s a bad
> > > function, then the implementors started to withdraw it.
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> > Here's an interesting story about gets(3), which I learnt recently:
> > The C Committee didn't remove it from ISO C.  It was the Austin Group
> > that triggered some unusual process within ISO for overriding the
> > C Committee, and removed it in a secret meeting.
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> That sounds like a myth.  You can easily read the October 2009 minutes=20
> (N1475), item 4.27 "On The Removal of gets() (N1420) (Stoughton)".  You=
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> can also see C99 issue 0332 that resulted in the obsolescence in C99 TC3=
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> that was followed by the removal in C11.

It could very well be a myth.  For the outsiders, it was the WG14
convenor who told us this story some days ago.


Cheers,
Alex

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