Mike, On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't think rendering the dashes in the regex expression as the en > style makes sense. This is a literal regex, so use literal dashes. I agree, but it looks like your patch is inconsistent. But you use '\-' in one part of the patch (right), and just '-' in the other part. How come? Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man3/crypt.3 | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man3/crypt.3 b/man3/crypt.3 > index 9baa80a..453bcec 100644 > --- a/man3/crypt.3 > +++ b/man3/crypt.3 > @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ is a user's typed password. > .PP > .I salt > is a two-character string chosen from the set > -[\fBa\fP\(en\fBzA\fP\(en\fBZ0\fP\(en\fB9./\fP]. > +[\fBa\-zA\-Z0\-9./\fP]. > This string is used to > perturb the algorithm in one of 4096 different ways. > .PP > @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ SHA-512 | 86 characters > .TE > > The characters in "\fIsalt\fP" and "\fIencrypted\fP" are drawn from the set > -[\fBa\fP\(en\fBzA\fP\(en\fBZ0\fP\(en\fB9./\fP]. > +[\fBa-zA-Z0-9./\fP]. > In the MD5 and SHA implementations the entire > .I key > is significant (instead of only the first > -- > 1.9.2 > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
