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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2011-09-28 06:16:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2011-09-28 06:20:52 +0200 |
| commit | 71d9e7ae77e74475825e2850c1daef779b51f978 (patch) | |
| tree | fd4ac0cd38c5852ddb8aaa7beaccbbb1b53f34fc /man3/printf.3 | |
| parent | e9c23bc636426366d659809bc99cd84661e86464 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-71d9e7ae77e74475825e2850c1daef779b51f978.tar.gz | |
gets.3, mbtowc.3, printf.3, puts.3, scanf.3, stpcpy.3, stpncpy.3, strcat.3, strlen.3, strnlen.3, strsep.3, strstr.3, strxfrm.3, utmp.5: Global fix: consistent use of "null byte"
Bring more consistency to the discussion of
"[terminating] null byte"
by writing (at least in the initial use in a page)
"[terminating] null byte ('\0')".
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/printf.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/printf.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3 index 720a8fff5c..194050b1fa 100644 --- a/man3/printf.3 +++ b/man3/printf.3 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" 2000-07-26 jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk - three small fixes .\" 2000-10-16 jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk - more fixes .\" -.TH PRINTF 3 2010-09-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH PRINTF 3 2011-09-28 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME printf, fprintf, sprintf, snprintf, vprintf, vfprintf, vsprintf, vsnprintf \- formatted output conversion @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ and .BR vsnprintf () write at most .I size -bytes (including the trailing null byte (\(aq\e0\(aq)) to +bytes (including the terminating null byte (\(aq\e0\(aq)) to .IR str . .PP The functions @@ -151,8 +151,7 @@ refer to the same buffer). See NOTES. .SS "Return value" Upon successful return, these functions return the number of characters -printed (not including the -trailing \(aq\e0\(aq used to end output to strings). +printed (excluding the null byte used to end output to strings). The functions .BR snprintf () @@ -160,9 +159,9 @@ and .BR vsnprintf () do not write more than .I size -bytes (including the trailing \(aq\e0\(aq). +bytes (including the terminating null byte (\(aq\e0\(aq)). If the output was truncated due to this limit then the return value -is the number of characters (not including the trailing \(aq\e0\(aq) +is the number of characters (excluding the terminating null byte) which would have been written to the final string if enough space had been available. Thus, a return value of |