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Federal censorship regulations


Hello to the list!

Here is an excerpt from the glibc2 Manual I happend to read today:


Aborting a Program

You can abort your program using the abort function. The prototype for
this function is in `stdlib.h'. 

Function: void abort (void) 
     The abort function causes abnormal program termination. This does
     not execute cleanup functions registered with atexit or on_exit. 

     This function actually terminates the process by raising a SIGABRT
     signal, and your program can include a handler to intercept this
     signal; see section Signal Handling. 

Future Change Warning: Proposed Federal censorship regulations may
prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of
calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an
acceptable way of terminating a program.


Now, as you can imagine, my question refers to the last part of this
article. Why to hell, a gouvernment would apply restrictions on a
possibly harmless library function and tell people it does not exist?

Regards,
	Peter.


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