Garrett D'Amore writes:
> Then those interfaces should not have been promoted, IMO.  Instead, 
> leave a contract in place, and provide suitable replacements for truly 
> public consumption that either lack the side effect, or make it clear 
> that a side effect exists (mcopyandfreemsg().).    As I pointed out 
> earlier, there are cases where that side effect is toxic, and mcopymsg() 
> cannot be used.

I agree that the current man page documentation is incomplete and
should be fixed ... but I do not understand why the function name
itself needs to document all possible side-effects.  That seems like
an unnecessarily high bar to cross.

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