Laurence, On 09/22/2013 08:41 PM, Laurence Gonsalves wrote: > Hello. > > "man 3 regcomp" says "cflags may be the bitwise-or of one or more of > the following", but I'm fairly certain that 0 is also a legal value > for this parameter. > > The page http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/regcomp.html > says "The cflags argument is the bitwise-inclusive OR of zero or more > of the following flags...". > > If 0 is, indeed, a legal value then I think it would be more clear if > the manpage said "cflags may be the bitwise-or of zero or more of the > following". > > (Sorry for the duplicate email. vger.kernel.org bounced the original > apparently due to Gmail's use of HTML.) Quite some time after your report... I agree, and I've made the change. Cheers, Michael -- 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