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Re: Don't document fclean

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the history. ?I don't think this changes the basic argument for
>> my patch (that the manual should document facilities that are actually
>> implemented, and if someone implements fclean in future then the
>> documentation can be added back at that point).
>
> Certainly the patch is fine. ?Carlos asked (I presume just out of
> curiosity), so I answered.

I was curious specifically because there are two solutions to
misleading and incorrect documentation:

* Fix the documentation to match reality.

or

* Fix the implementation to match the documentation.

Given your description I think the former is correct.

Cheers,
Carlos.
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