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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2014-01-03 15:01:50 +1300
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2014-01-03 15:47:06 +1300
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epoll_ctl.2, execve.2, recv.2, timer_create.2, wait.2, argz_add.3, basename.3, dlopen.3, exec.3, fopencookie.3, fts.3, getaddrinfo.3, getcwd.3, gethostbyname.3, getifaddrs.3, getipnodebyname.3, getlogin.3, getnetent.3, getprotoent.3, getrpcent.3, getservent.3, getusershell.3, glob.3, if_nameindex.3, inet_ntop.3, lio_listio.3, mblen.3, mbrlen.3, mbrtowc.3, mbsinit.3, mbsnrtowcs.3, mbsrtowcs.3, mbstowcs.3, mq_notify.3, ptsname.3, realpath.3, setnetgrent.3, sigvec.3, strsignal.3, strtok.3, wcrtomb.3, wcsnrtombs.3, wcsrtombs.3, wcstombs.3, xdr.3: Global fix of "NULL pointer"
Change "NULL pointer: to "NUL " or null pointer". POSIX uses the term "null pointer", not "NULL pointer". Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/exec.3')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man3/exec.3 b/man3/exec.3
index 51d665b36d..6356d2c445 100644
--- a/man3/exec.3
+++ b/man3/exec.3
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ The first argument, by convention, should point to the filename associated
with the file being executed.
The list of arguments
.I must
-be terminated by a NULL pointer,
+be terminated by a null pointer,
and, since these are variadic functions, this pointer must be cast
.IR "(char\ *) NULL" .
.PP
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ The first argument, by convention, should point to the filename
associated with the file being executed.
The array of pointers
.I must
-be terminated by a NULL pointer.
+be terminated by a null pointer.
.PP
The
.BR execle ()
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ The
.I envp
argument is an array of pointers to null-terminated strings and
.I must
-be terminated by a NULL pointer.
+be terminated by a null pointer.
The other functions take the environment for the new process
image from the external variable
.I environ