Don't document fclean
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@systemhalted.org
Mon Feb 27 21:18:00 GMT 2012
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the history. I don't think this changes the basic argument for
>> my patch (that the manual should document facilities that are actually
>> implemented, and if someone implements fclean in future then the
>> documentation can be added back at that point).
>
> Certainly the patch is fine. Carlos asked (I presume just out of
> curiosity), so I answered.
I was curious specifically because there are two solutions to
misleading and incorrect documentation:
* Fix the documentation to match reality.
or
* Fix the implementation to match the documentation.
Given your description I think the former is correct.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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