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| author |   cloder <cloder@openbsd.org> | 2005-02-25 03:12:43 +0000 |
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| committer | cloder <cloder@openbsd.org> | 2005-02-25 03:12:43 +0000 |
| commit | 1e5ede29f718fe4f17c128f8fde29ac3824349f1 (patch) | |
| tree | fd6e65cd34239687cd19bb98f99ffdf5a9155023 /lib/libc/sys | |
| parent | Fix an obviously incorrect call to memset. '0' and 0 are not the same (diff) | |
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Be correct in our man pages when talking about NUL termination (that is,
termination with '\0') vs. null termination.
Input from krw@, jaredy@, jmc@. OK deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/acct.2 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/execve.2 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/getlogin.2 | 4 |
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/acct.2 b/lib/libc/sys/acct.2 index abee854b4d5..80c8f7d3943 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/acct.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/acct.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: acct.2,v 1.9 2003/06/02 20:18:38 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: acct.2,v 1.10 2005/02/25 03:12:44 cloder Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: acct.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:31:47 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ is accounting is disabled. If .Fa file -is an existing, null-terminated pathname, record collection is enabled +is an existing, NUL-terminated pathname, record collection is enabled and for every process initiated which terminates under normal conditions an accounting record is appended to .Fa file . diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/execve.2 b/lib/libc/sys/execve.2 index 4fc2e838b21..6d020de9526 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/execve.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/execve.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: execve.2,v 1.29 2004/07/05 23:04:43 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: execve.2,v 1.30 2005/02/25 03:12:44 cloder Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: execve.2,v 1.9 1995/02/27 12:32:25 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ file, is left unchanged. The argument .Fa argv is a pointer to a null-terminated array of -character pointers to nul-terminated character strings. +character pointers to NUL-terminated character strings. These strings construct the argument list to be made available to the new process. At least one argument must be present in the array; @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ the name of the executed program (for example, the last component of The argument .Fa envp is also a pointer to a null-terminated array of -character pointers to nul-terminated strings. +character pointers to NUL-terminated strings. A pointer to this array is normally stored in the global variable .Va environ . These strings pass information to the diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getlogin.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getlogin.2 index 81af636237e..3d0e41647e4 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/getlogin.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/getlogin.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: getlogin.2,v 1.16 2003/06/02 20:18:39 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: getlogin.2,v 1.17 2005/02/25 03:12:44 cloder Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: getlogin.2,v 1.4 1995/02/27 12:33:03 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993 @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ precautions to prevent security violations. .Sh RETURN VALUES If a call to .Fn getlogin -succeeds, it returns a pointer to a null-terminated string in a static buffer. +succeeds, it returns a pointer to a NUL-terminated string in a static buffer. If the name has not been set, it returns .Dv NULL . If a call to |