Harmonize all the manual pages to use "stream" for FILE* instead of randomly using "fp" or "stream." Choosing something and being consistent helps users scan the man pages quickly and understand what they are looking at. Patch against master. diff --git a/man3/fclose.3 b/man3/fclose.3 index 28c0d00..b07d444 100644 --- a/man3/fclose.3 +++ b/man3/fclose.3 @@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ fclose \- close a stream .SH SYNOPSIS .B #include <stdio.h> .sp -.BI "int fclose(FILE *" fp ); +.BI "int fclose(FILE *" stream ); .SH DESCRIPTION The .BR fclose () function flushes the stream pointed to by -.I fp +.I stream (writing any buffered output data using .BR fflush (3)) and closes the underlying file descriptor. @@ -71,12 +71,12 @@ to the stream results in undefined behavior. .TP .B EBADF The file descriptor underlying -.I fp +.I stream is not valid. .\" This error cannot occur unless you are mixing ANSI C stdio operations and .\" low-level file operations on the same stream. If you do get this error, .\" you must have closed the stream's low-level file descriptor using -.\" something like close(fileno(fp)). +.\" something like close(fileno(stream)). .PP The .BR fclose () --- Cheers, Carlos. -- 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
