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Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 02:12:46 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: documenting musl

On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:15:47PM -0700, nwmcsween@...il.com wrote:
> Posix only describes what it must do not how it does it as musl vs
> glibc vs any other libc in my opinion anyways

My point was that the what vs how is an important distinction, and I
don't think it's useful for us to duplicate the "what", which POSIX
already did very well. The how is of course interesting to anybody
reading the code, and inline comments may be a good place to put that.

Rich

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