Hi Jonny On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 15:41, Jonny Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > Returning to an old topic, noticed strcpy man page is different from the POSIX spec with regards to "terminating NUL character" or "null-terminated" shouldn't man pages should follow POSIX style writing "NUL"? > > https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strcpy.3.html > > https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strcpy.3p.html > > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strcpy.html > > Another function even has nul in the name > https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strchrnul.3.html It's not so simple. In POSIX/SUS, you will find variously: terminating NUL character terminating NUL terminating null character terminating null byte There's even one instance of "terminating NULL character" (in <net/if.h>; I estimate it's a bug). In the C standard (C11), "terminating null character" seems to be used exclusively, but as I understand the C standard [char == byte] by definition. I've tried to consistently use "terminating null byte" across all pages in man-pages. See also the discussion in man-pages(7). Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
