svn commit: r219803 - head/lib/libc/string

Jilles Tjoelker jilles at FreeBSD.org
Sun Mar 20 20:53:55 UTC 2011


Author: jilles
Date: Sun Mar 20 20:53:55 2011
New Revision: 219803
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219803

Log:
  index(3): Mention that index/rindex are deprecated and not specified by
  POSIX.1-2008.
  
  MFC after:	1 week

Modified:
  head/lib/libc/string/index.3

Modified: head/lib/libc/string/index.3
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libc/string/index.3	Sun Mar 20 15:46:05 2011	(r219802)
+++ head/lib/libc/string/index.3	Sun Mar 20 20:53:55 2011	(r219803)
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)index.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dd March 20, 2011
 .Dt INDEX 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -45,6 +45,17 @@
 .Ft "char *"
 .Fn rindex "const char *s" "int c"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Bf -symbolic
+The
+.Fn index
+and
+.Fn rindex
+functions have been deprecated in favor of
+.Xr strchr 3
+and
+.Xr strrchr 3 .
+.Ef
+.Pp
 The
 .Fn index
 function
@@ -100,3 +111,5 @@ before they were moved to
 for
 .St -p1003.1-2001
 compliance.
+The functions are not specified by
+.St -p1003.1-2008 .


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