On 12/03/2017 09:09 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Patch inline and attached. "Nonzero" is by far the preferred term in
> the existing man pages, with roughly 180 occurrences compared to the
> handful I have changed below.
Thanks, Branden. Applied.
Cheers,
Michael
> Also add this term to the style guide in man-pages(7).
>
> diff --git a/man1/iconv.1 b/man1/iconv.1
> index 9e66f988c..f66477d7b 100644
> --- a/man1/iconv.1
> +++ b/man1/iconv.1
> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ Print a short usage summary and exit.
> Print the version number, license, and disclaimer of warranty for
> .BR iconv .
> .SH EXIT STATUS
> -Zero on success, non-zero on errors.
> +Zero on success, nonzero on errors.
> .SH ENVIRONMENT
> Internally, the
> .B iconv
> diff --git a/man3/pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np.3 b/man3/pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np.3
> index 227e0af1c..defaf0d0b 100644
> --- a/man3/pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np.3
> +++ b/man3/pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np.3
> @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Given valid pointer arguments,
> always succeeds.
> On error,
> .BR pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np ()
> -returns a non-zero error number.
> +returns a nonzero error number.
> .SH ERRORS
> .TP
> .BR EINVAL
> diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7
> index cf6727af9..1e2ee61e5 100644
> --- a/man7/man-pages.7
> +++ b/man7/man-pages.7
> @@ -682,6 +682,7 @@ filesystem file system
> hostname host name
> inode i-node
> lowercase lower case, lower-case
> +nonzero non-zero
> pathname path name
> pseudoterminal pseudo-terminal
> privileged port T{
> diff --git a/man7/socket.7 b/man7/socket.7
> index 1a2cfe9cc..64696d3b1 100644
> --- a/man7/socket.7
> +++ b/man7/socket.7
> @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ or an extended BPF
> program to the socket for use as a filter of incoming packets.
> A packet will be dropped if the filter program returns zero.
> If the filter program returns a
> -non-zero value which is less than the packet's data length,
> +nonzero value which is less than the packet's data length,
> the packet will be truncated to the length returned.
> If the value returned by the filter is greater than or equal to the
> packet's data length, the packet is allowed to proceed unmodified.
> diff --git a/man8/iconvconfig.8 b/man8/iconvconfig.8
> index c5fdf3cfd..e94ad1e5a 100644
> --- a/man8/iconvconfig.8
> +++ b/man8/iconvconfig.8
> @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Print a short usage summary and exit.
> Print the version number, license, and disclaimer of warranty for
> .BR iconv .
> .SH EXIT STATUS
> -Zero on success, non-zero on errors.
> +Zero on success, nonzero on errors.
> .SH FILES
> .TP
> .I /usr/lib/gconv
>
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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