On 01/16/2015 01:12 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hello Carlos, > > On 01/16/2015 04:18 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >> 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. > > Agreed, and thanks for preparing the patches. > >> The next 7 patches convert all instances of "FILE *fp" to >> "FILE *stream". The vast majority of man pages already use >> the "FILE *stream" version which I also prefer. > > Yes, good. It's what POSIX uses too. > > I tweaked some wordings very slightly (adding or removing "the" > in a couple of places), and gave the patches the title: > > Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument > > I also made related changes in fmemopen(3), fopencookie(3), and > getline(3). Thanks! 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
