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It's visual clutter that only communicates

- I see the entire computing world with Unix blinders on my eyes.

- I can't imagine a strlcpy function being used on a system that isn't Unix and that doesn't have a man page for it in section 3.

- I don't care that C has been internationally standardized since 1989 with a printf(3) function; printf(3) it's just another Unix function in section 3 of my man pages.

- If I don't affix (2) or (3), how will people know I'm not talking about something other than a C library function? I don't understand this "context" stuff in writing and speaking.



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