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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
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Subject: Re: List of routines safe to use in signals?
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Date: 18 Dec 90 01:52:58 GMT
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jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
> [...]  when there is an
>inconsistency between a man page and a library function, the first decision
>that must be made is which one is wrong, and therefore which one needs fixing.

since you said that the man page is the specification for the function,
then it's always the function that 'needs fixing' if there is a 
inconsistency :-) Unless you change the specification in the first
place, of course. But who is in a position to do that? me? you? god? AT&T?
kinda religion problem in many cases, anyway.
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