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From: Rob McMahon <cudcv@pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: SunOS4.1.3 to Solaris2.5.1 Porting issues.
Date: 17 Dec 1996 11:47:38 -0000
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Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> writes:

> j> That's still no reason to not help your customers in a transition:
> j> provide a man page, and put it into libcompat.a.  State this in the man
> j> page.
> 
> This is all done.

It would have been nice to mention the replacement routine on the manpage for
sigsetmask, though.  You have to chase through two sets of SEE ALSO's to find
it.  Still, a minor complaint.

Rob
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