Hello fdclose

[Adrian Chadd]

The call to <....>

Done. Moving on!



-a


On 22 March 2014 06:40, George Mitchell <george+freebsd at m5p.com> wrote:
> On 03/21/14 20:51, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>
>> Warner Losh <imp at 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
>>
> Etc., etc., etc.  Wouldn't it be more productive to spend this effort on
> recasting the sentence in question so that it doesn't start with a word
> that starts with a small letter?                              -- George
>
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