Re: Possibly misleading description of cflags parameter in regcomp(3)

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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






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