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From: Jon Grant <jg-hus3n9K41k0@public.gmane.org>
To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: index.3 wcsnlen.3  proposals
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:03:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E791BB2.4040809@jguk.org> (raw)

Hello

Some feedback below. Great new release!

I saw in index.3:

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/online/pages/man3/index.3.html

Some use of "NULL" to mean the Nul terminating byte. I suggest to change 
from NULL, as that means (void*)0;

Current text:
"The terminating NULL character is considered to be a part of the strings."

Proposal:

"The terminating NUL character '\0' is considered to be a part of the 
strings. A user call with c=0 to find the end of the string."


http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/online/pages/man3/wcsnlen.3.html

I think worth clarifying "maxlen" is in wide-char units, not bytes.

Current text:

"but at most maxlen"

Proposal:
"but at most maxlen wide characters (note, this parameter is not a byte 
count)"


Best regards, Jon
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             reply	other threads:[~2011-09-20 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-20 23:03 Jon Grant [this message]
     [not found] ` <4E791BB2.4040809-hus3n9K41k0@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-21  5:05   ` index.3 wcsnlen.3 proposals Michael Kerrisk

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