New: drand48() unduely declared obsolete
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84901
Bug ID: 84901
Summary: drand48() unduely declared obsolete
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
Assignee: documentation_man-pages-ztI5WcYan/[email protected]
Reporter: nyh-TS7m/[email protected]
Regression: No
The drand48() manual page ends with a note:
"These functions are declared obsolete by SVID 3, which states that rand(3) should be used instead."
The unsuspecting reader will see this, and think that these are obsolete functions he shouldn't use. But he most likely not know that "SVID 3" referred here is actually a document written 25 years ago, in 1989 (!), for SVr4. He will not know that Posix that came more than 10 years later did not call this function obsolete, and that till this day, it is not considered obsolete by Posix (see
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/drand48.html).
So I think this statement about SVID 3 should be dropped. Or, if for some reason you want to keep it, at least add a clarification that this was in 1989 and standards that followed it do not consider these functions obsolete.
Thanks!
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[Bug 84901] drand48() unduely declared obsolete
In reply to a message not in the archivehttps://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84901
Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> --- Hello Nadav Har'El,
This was just fixed in the latest man-pages release, after this report:
http://bugs.debian.org/758293
Thanks anyway for the report.
Michael
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