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Subject: Re: Is getpass(3) really obsolete?
From: "Alejandro Colomar \(man-pages\) via Libc-alpha" <libc-alpha () sourceware ! org>
Date: 2021-10-30 12:24:55
Message-ID: fd78c241-c51e-03c6-1e6b-641536245fbd () gmail ! com
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Hi Joseph,
On 10/29/21 18:31, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Libc-alpha wrote:
>
>> The broader context is that I was trying to make the deprecation notices more
>> consistent in the Linux manpages, by using the [[deprecated]] attribute where
>> appropriate. While doing that, I found a few cases where the
>> deprecation/obsoletion is not so clear to me, such as this one
>> ([as]ctime[_r](3) is another one, since it is deprecated by POSIX, but not by
>> the C standard, but I'll start a different thread with that; and isascii(3) is
>
> See the discussion of deprecation starting with
> <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-May/126356.html> (C2X
> has also deprecated those functions). The comments in that thread
> supported marking the functions deprecated, but it needs someone to send a
> patch and I don't know what breakage might result in applications using
> those functions.
>
Thanks. The latest draft for C2x that I know of is N2596. Is there any
newer draft that I can consult for these things? I see many proposals,
but it's difficult to know which have been accepted and which not
without an actual recent draft of the standard.
Cheers,
Alex
--
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
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