A "joke" in the glibc manual

Posted Nov 8, 2018 0:53 UTC (Thu) by karim (subscriber, #114)
Parent article: A "joke" in the glibc manual

Can't we just add a "jokes from the good old days" GNU project document that collects *all* such jokes and gives them context:
"An older version of the glibc manual had this to say about the abort():
.....
This was a reference about X. After community debate it was agreed to remove it from the official document and put it here so that I can be appreciated in its full context."

A "joke" in the glibc manual

Posted Nov 8, 2018 12:40 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (1 responses)

That's a really good proposal. "man gnu-jokes" if you want to read them.

A "joke" in the glibc manual

Posted Nov 8, 2018 22:22 UTC (Thu) by JFlorian (guest, #49650) [Link]

You obviously meant "info gnu-jokes".

A "joke" in the glibc manual

Posted Nov 12, 2018 10:16 UTC (Mon) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

Great idea. Stallman could even quote from it at dinner parties.