Re: [PATCH] manual: Remove warning in the documentation of the abort function

[Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>]

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  > The two issues are unrelated.  You are only making things worse for
  > yourself and the community

That is a matter of judgment, and my judgment is different.

In my judgment, it is vital to decide, first, several broader issues
that are bigger and more important.  Each of those issues affects the
right way to decide this question _and other questions_.

I have not been idle about this.  I've brought up several of those
issues, one by one, on this list, and we reached conclusions that are
now stated in the coding standards or maintainer's guide.  But not
quite all of them.  We should wait till the situation is clear and
calm, then take up the remaining issues, one by one, with a month's
pause in between.  Once they are resolved, we can wait another month,
then take up the question of the abort(2) joke and decide it the right
way.

That joke has been in the C Library manual for around 28 years, since
I thoroughly rewrote that manual, and the sky has not fallen.  Let's
not delay needlessly, but we should not be in a rush about the bigger
issues.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)