the Linux man-pages as an educational tool

[Joseph Myers]

On Sun, 2 Aug 2026, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

> If <string.h> was described as providing functions that exclusively
> handle strings, then programmers that only need to handle strings would
> naturally self-limit to functions from this header file.

A one-line change to the description of <string.h> in the C standard, from 
"String handling" to "String and memory utilities" or similar, to make 
clear it's *not* (and never has been) exclusively handling strings, might 
well make sense.  That's all the change that I think makes sense in this 
area.

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Joseph S. Myers
josmyers@redhat.com