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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-11-17 18:47:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-11-17 21:51:23 +0100 |
| commit | 18e7c4597c4e72fa5210c7887273e363c456c9ee (patch) | |
| tree | 97cfd22e731a4c859ae71783d70943ff72e6cb60 /man/man2/sysctl.2 | |
| parent | 8fc6fdd8291d906e58a175b5e1b20da680aaeb4a (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-18e7c4597c4e.tar.gz | |
man/: Terminology consistency reforms (n, size, length)
Use 'length' for the lenght of a string.
Use 'n' for the number of elements.
Use 'size' for the number of bytes. (And in wide-character string
functions, 'size' also refers to the number of wide characters.)
The change is quite large, and I might have made some mistakes.
But overall, this should improve consistency in use of these terms.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man2/sysctl.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man2/sysctl.2 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/man2/sysctl.2 b/man/man2/sysctl.2 index 090c99fc0b..a7f9c888f6 100644 --- a/man/man2/sysctl.2 +++ b/man/man2/sysctl.2 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ The argument has the form .EX struct __sysctl_args { int *name; /* integer vector describing variable */ - int nlen; /* length of this vector */ + int nlen; /* number of elements of this vector */ void *oldval; /* 0 or address where to store old value */ size_t *oldlenp; /* available room for old value, overwritten by actual size of old value */ |