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Re: Delete abortion joke


On 04/28/2018 01:58 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 1:07 PM,  <rain1@airmail.cc> wrote:
>>
>> I propose the following patch, which deletes the abortion joke from the
>> glibc manual. The joke does not provide any useful information about the
>> abort() function so removing it will not hinder use of glibc.
> 
> Ugh, is that still there?   It wasn't funny twenty years ago and it's
> only gotten less funny since.  I'm in favor of removing it.  Any
> objections?

I'm with Florian and Paul, the joke is not in an invariant section (which
I would also like to remove, but that's another story), and is not appropriate
for a technical manual. I had never noticed the joke myself or I would have
proposed removal earlier.

Please remove the joke in a single commit and not mix the removal with
anything else.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.


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