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Re: [PATCH] manual: Remove warning in the documentation of the abort function
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> The only barely valid argument I have seen in allowing such feature
> creep from FSF to GNU
That way of conceptualizing the situation surprises me. It doesn't
fit with the events as they happened.
I suggest reading https://gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html
about how GNU and the FSF came to be.
was that RMS practically owns FSF and GNU and can
> claim it's one and the same thing.
They are not the same thing.
One pertinent historical point for the C Library Manual is that I am
one of its main authors. I rewrote most of its text to make it more
readable. When I came to the abort system call, I added the joke.
I've appointed others to manage work on GNU libc, including this manual,
but I gave specific instructions not to delete this joke.
We can and will consider deleting it, after looking at the remaining
bigger issues.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)