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From: | Eric Blake |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] parse-datetime: do some more renaming |
Date: | Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:00:52 -0600 |
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On 10/05/2010 02:52 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
address@hidden was originally implemented by Steven M. Bellovin address@hidden was originally implemented by Steven M. Bellovin
Is that the correct historical name, or should this be worded:@code{parse_datetime} started life as @code{getdate}, as originally implemented...
(@email{smb@@research.att.com}) while at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The code was later tweaked by a couple of people on Usenet, then completely overhauled by Rich $alz (@email{rsalz@@bbn.com}) and Jim Berets (@email{jberets@@bbn.com}) in August, 1990. Various revisions for the @sc{gnu} system were made by David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering, -Paul Eggert and others, including renaming it to @code{parse_datetime} +Paul Eggert and others, including renaming it to @code{get_date} and +then to @code{parse_datetime}
given that we are documenting its renames through history? Should we also mention the non-thread-safe getdate() POSIX function, and mention how the two differ?
Thanks for the remaining cleanups. -- Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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