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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/man3/lockf.3 | |
| 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/man3/lockf.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man3/lockf.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man/man3/lockf.3 b/man/man3/lockf.3 index 83d5a358ff..1247fdef58 100644 --- a/man/man3/lockf.3 +++ b/man/man3/lockf.3 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Standard C library .nf .B #include <unistd.h> .P -.BI "int lockf(int " fd ", int " op ", off_t " len ); +.BI "int lockf(int " fd ", int " op ", off_t " size ); .fi .P .RS -4 @@ -39,17 +39,17 @@ The file is specified by a file descriptor open for writing, the action by .IR op , and the section consists of byte positions -.IR pos .. pos + len \-1 +.IR pos .. pos + size \-1 if -.I len +.I size is positive, and -.IR pos \- len .. pos \-1 +.IR pos \- size .. pos \-1 if -.I len +.I size is negative, where .I pos is the current file position, and if -.I len +.I size is zero, the section extends from the current file position to infinity, encompassing the present and future end-of-file positions. In all cases, the section may extend past current end-of-file. |