Hello Jon, On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Jon Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello > > I think these two man pages could be adjusted to use a consistent name > for "nul" terminators, that is '\0' in a const char * string. > http://linux.die.net/man/3/strncpy The HTML-rendered man pages at linux.die.net are created by someone unknown to me. They are also years out of date. For up-to-date HTML renderings, produced by me, see http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html > this one consistently uses '\0' > http://linux.die.net/man/3/strcat > > strncpy talks about '\0', "null-terminating", and "null byte" > > IMHO "NUL" is the correct name to use, which is different again (N.B. > single L), compared to NULL (#define NULL (void*)0 (Take a look at up-to-date pages.) I tend to avoid NUL, simply because it is so easy to visually confuse with "NULL". Other than that, I think the pages pretty consistently use '\0', "terminating null byte", and "null-terminated string". I think this is okay. > Also this page seems to have lost formatting, this may only be the web > page generation though. > > > http://linux.die.net/man/3/memalign > Synopsis > > #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600#include <stdlib.h> > int posix_memalign(void **memptr, size_t alignment, size_t size); > #include <malloc.h> > void *valloc(size_t size);void *memalign(size_t boundary, size_t size); > > > See the #include is not on its own line after "XOPEN_SOURCE 600". > Likewise memalign should be on its own line. See comments above about the die.net pages. Cheers, Michael > Thank you for taking a look, Jon > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
