[RFC v1] man/man2/close.2: CAVEATS: Document divergence from POSIX.1-2024

[Zack Weinberg]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026, at 8:02 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 07:33:58PM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> [...]
>
>> (Alejandro, do you have a preference between -man
>> and -mdoc markup?)
>
> Strong preference for man(7).

OK.

>>               close(),” below.
>
> Punctuation like commas should go outside of the quotes (yes, I know
> some styles do that, but we don't).

Will correct.

>> HISTORY
>>        The close() system call was present in Unix V7.
>
> That would be simply stated as:
>
> 	V7.

Looking at other really old system calls (fork(), open(), read(), _exit(), link()),
they all say "SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001" and that's what this one said too,
before I changed it.  I think I'll put it back the way it was.

zw