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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2017-01-05 15:49:40 +1300
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2017-01-05 15:49:40 +1300
commitaf500011b705b46c74e19464619ba925e0929a3a (patch)
tree687be2bd61f2c6d7fc6b442dedca5985c0731170 /man3/fopen.3
parent7eed8a8f10f00d19177b6f7b4665a87dff122068 (diff)
downloadman-pages-af500011b705b46c74e19464619ba925e0929a3a.tar.gz
fopen.3: Change argument name: 'path' to 'pathname'
For consistency with open(2). Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/fopen.3')
-rw-r--r--man3/fopen.310
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man3/fopen.3 b/man3/fopen.3
index 20f94bcc5c..ec7ce96227 100644
--- a/man3/fopen.3
+++ b/man3/fopen.3
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ fopen, fdopen, freopen \- stream open functions
.nf
.B #include <stdio.h>
.sp
-.BI "FILE *fopen(const char *" path ", const char *" mode );
+.BI "FILE *fopen(const char *" pathname ", const char *" mode );
.BI "FILE *fdopen(int " fd ", const char *" mode );
-.BI "FILE *freopen(const char *" path ", const char *" mode ", FILE *" stream );
+.BI "FILE *freopen(const char *" pathname ", const char *" mode ", FILE *" stream );
.fi
.sp
.in -4n
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ _POSIX_C_SOURCE
The
.BR fopen ()
function opens the file whose name is the string pointed to by
-.I path
+.I pathname
and associates a stream with it.
.PP
The argument
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ to a shared memory object is undefined.
The
.BR freopen ()
function opens the file whose name is the string pointed to by
-.I path
+.I pathname
and associates the stream pointed to by
.I stream
with it.
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ argument is used just as in the
function.
If the
-.I path
+.I pathname
argument is a null pointer,
.BR freopen ()
changes the mode of the stream to that specified in