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Message-ID: <20261112124114.GB3542221@port70.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 13:41:14 +0100
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx+linux-man@...nel.org>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>,
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@...c17.net>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
libc-alpha@...rceware.org, Walter Harms <wharms@....de>,
~hallyn/shadow@...ts.sr.ht, musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v1] man/man3/crypt.3: These functions accept
many algorithms, not only DES
* Alejandro Colomar <alx+linux-man@...nel.org> [2026-11-12 13:27:13 +0100]:
> How about something this (we can improve the wording)?
>
> diff --git i/man/man3/crypt.3 w/man/man3/crypt.3
> index 524781d3c2a0..d579bc5394fb 100644
> --- i/man/man3/crypt.3
> +++ w/man/man3/crypt.3
> @@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ .SH ATTRIBUTES
> .BR crypt_r ()
> T} Thread safety MT-Safe
> .TE
> +.SH VERSIONS
> +POSIX specifies a quite useless API,
> +and all systems extend it significantly.
please don't put nonsense into the official man pages.
your job is to document the interface contract including
implementation defined behaviour, not to judge the spec
and other systems.
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