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Re: Don't document fclean
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:37:05 -0500
- Subject: Re: Don't document fclean
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> The manual documents a function called fclean, which has no
> implementation in glibc. ?I propose this patch to remove that
> documentation, so eliminating some references to the GNU system which
> actually refer to an empty set of systems.
>
> 2012-02-27 ?Joseph Myers ?<joseph@codesourcery.com>
>
> ? ? ? ?* manual/llio.texi (fclean): Remove documentation.
What's the history here? What *is* fclean?
I'm OK with removing the references since it's bogus, but where did it
come from?
Cheers,
Carlos.