Document early history of a few functions specifically mentioned in 2BSD

manuals; however, it turned out all of these actually predate 2BSD.
All information from http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl.
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3 files changed, 59 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3
index b406da943ba..21f26d147ec 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: fopen.3,v 1.23 2011/05/02 11:14:11 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: fopen.3,v 1.24 2012/01/15 21:03:05 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 2 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 15 2012 $
 .Dt FOPEN 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -227,6 +227,22 @@ The
 .Fn fdopen
 function conforms to
 .St -p1003.1-88 .
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn fopen
+function first appeared in
+.At v1 .
+The
+.Fn fdopen
+and
+.Fn freopen
+functions first appeared in
+.At v7 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Dennis Ritchie
+originally implemented
+.Fn fopen
+in PDP-11 assembler.
 .Sh CAVEATS
 Proper code using
 .Fn fdopen
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/getc.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/getc.3
index 302115fa1bf..58d01c09926 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/getc.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/getc.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: getc.3,v 1.12 2007/05/31 19:19:31 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: getc.3,v 1.13 2012/01/15 21:03:05 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 15 2012 $
 .Dt GETC 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -111,6 +111,27 @@ and
 .Fn getchar
 functions conform to
 .St -ansiC .
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn getc
+and
+.Fn getw
+functions first appeared in
+.At v1 ;
+.Fn getchar
+in
+.At v2 ;
+and
+.Fn fgetc
+in
+.At v7 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Dennis Ritchie
+originally implemented
+.Fn getc
+and
+.Fn getw
+in PDP-11 assembler.
 .Sh BUGS
 Since
 .Dv EOF
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/access.2 b/lib/libc/sys/access.2
index 08c47a922e5..92080c0c131 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/access.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/access.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: access.2,v 1.18 2011/07/19 20:58:05 matthew Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: access.2,v 1.19 2012/01/15 21:03:05 schwarze Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: access.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:31:44 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)access.2	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/1/94
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 19 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 15 2012 $
 .Dt ACCESS 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -200,10 +200,26 @@ and
 functions conform to
 .St -p1003.1-2008 .
 .Sh HISTORY
+.Fn access
+first appeared as an internal kernel function in
+.At v1
+and was reimplemented in C before the release of
+.At v4 .
+It was first promoted to a system call in the Programmer's Workbench
+(PWB/UNIX), which was later ported to
+.At v7
+and
+.Bx 2 .
+.Pp
 The
 .Fn faccessat
 function appeared in
 .Ox 5.0 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Ken Thompson
+first implemented the
+.Fn access
+kernel function in C.
 .Sh CAVEATS
 .Fn access
 and