doc: Clarify age of <sys/types.h>.
authorG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Thu, 1 May 2025 23:06:18 +0000 (01:06 +0200)
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Thu, 1 May 2025 23:07:19 +0000 (01:07 +0200)
* doc/gnulib-readme.texi (C language versions): Mention when
<sys/types.h> first appeared.

Copyright-paperwork-exempt: Yes

ChangeLog
doc/gnulib-readme.texi

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+2025-05-01  G. Branden Robinson  <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>  (tiny change)
+
+       doc: Clarify age of <sys/types.h>.
+       * doc/gnulib-readme.texi (C language versions): Mention when
+       <sys/types.h> first appeared.
+
 2025-05-01  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
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@@ -332,8 +332,9 @@ of @code{<ctype.h>}, @code{<errno.h>}, @code{<fcntl.h>},
 @code{<locale.h>}, @code{<signal.h>}, @code{<stdio.h>},
 @code{<stdlib.h>}, @code{<string.h>}, and @code{<time.h>}.  Similarly,
 many modules include @code{<sys/types.h>} even though it's not
-in the C standard; that's OK since @code{<sys/types.h>} has been around nearly
-forever.
+in the C standard; that's OK since @code{<sys/types.h>} has been around
+@c https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/include/sys/types.h
+since Seventh Edition Unix (1979).
 
 Even if the include files exist, they may not conform to the C standard.
 However, GCC has a @command{fixincludes} script that attempts to fix most