Re: the Linux man-pages as an educational tool

On Sun, 2 Aug 2026, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

>      The  original implementation in glibc would have been con‐
>      forming to C99.  However, and ironically, trying to comply
>      with C99 before the standard was released,  glibc  changed
>      its  behavior  in glibc 2.1.1 into something that ended up
>      not conforming to the final C99 specification (but this is
>      debated, as the wording of the standard seems self‐contra‐
>      dicting).

 Well, this was a period when glibc was driven by personal preferences of 
one particular maintainer, so I don't think it is a good example in this 
discussion.  What problem are you trying to fix anyway, what's wrong with 
using <string.h> for the APIs in question?

  Maciej