Hi Andriy, On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 09:47:36AM +0000, Andriy Utkin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 10:21:27AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > mbstowcs(3) has the following: > > > > In order to avoid the case 2 above, the programmer should make > > sure n is greater than or equal to mbstowcs(NULL,src,0)+1. > > > > We could add that. > > That might have enlightened me! I like the wording, and indeed, having > it phrased the same way for these similar functions would be helpful. I've applied a few patches to these pages: <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?h=contrib&id=06783b90b57459437eb4a91b127523cc61fb1173> > > > BTW, maybe you want to use mbstowcs(3), which is simpler. > > Indeed I should have chosen that. > > > I think we could add something saying that mbsrtowcs(3) is a > > restartable version of mbstowcs(3). > > It might have helped me, and probably will help others. <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?h=contrib&id=b94a9c18d89c5c3a7a649c83e16de8034509c04e> And a few more to be able to diff the pages with $ diff -u <(man mbstowcs) <(man mbsrtowcs) Which I had to use to understand the differences. <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?h=contrib&id=6f9e8feeb8d0c391b0e5eb3a2b4dc2d7eab4d098> <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?h=contrib&id=f77ff4a87d2ca676b81f6919676634ab126a18b2> <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?h=contrib&id=fcfa4c254f0454d34a9370e2051c84069183a46b> Cheers, Alex > > Thanks Alejandro! -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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