From: Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 12:24:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Is getpass(3) really obsolete?
Message-ID: <fd78c241-c51e-03c6-1e6b-641536245fbd@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2110291627330.1788146@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

Hi Joseph,

On 10/29/21 18:31, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Libc-alpha wrote:
> 
>> The broader context is that I was trying to make the deprecation notices more
>> consistent in the Linux manpages, by using the [[deprecated]] attribute where
>> appropriate.  While doing that, I found a few cases where the
>> deprecation/obsoletion is not so clear to me, such as this one
>> ([as]ctime[_r](3) is another one, since it is deprecated by POSIX, but not by
>> the C standard, but I'll start a different thread with that; and isascii(3) is
> 
> See the discussion of deprecation starting with
> <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-May/126356.html> (C2X
> has also deprecated those functions).  The comments in that thread
> supported marking the functions deprecated, but it needs someone to send a
> patch and I don't know what breakage might result in applications using
> those functions.
> 

Thanks.  The latest draft for C2x that I know of is N2596.  Is there any 
newer draft that I can consult for these things?  I see many proposals, 
but it's difficult to know which have been accepted and which not 
without an actual recent draft of the standard.

Cheers,

Alex


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Alejandro Colomar
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