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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-11-01 16:14:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-11-01 16:23:30 +0100 |
| commit | 1bd990b3bee5fa83824f341a2cdd5a446267b09b (patch) | |
| tree | aee0701bead9b150d860ac5f0155ea421ce986b0 /man7/attributes.7 | |
| parent | 74bbcb7126e0c08e5d313852c26d725a28d0372f (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-1bd990b3bee5fa83824f341a2cdd5a446267b09b.tar.gz | |
man*/: wfix (say 'null pointer', not 'NULL pointer')
'NULL' is a null pointer _constant_. A 'null pointer' is a broader
concept. 'NULL pointer' is not a thing. See the link below.
Link: <https://software.codidact.com/posts/278657>
Fixes: 9517cf56fcbd ("pidfd_send_signal.2: New page documenting pidfd_send_signal(2)")
Fixes: fcd1bee32aa9 ("bpf.2: Improvements after comments from Daniel Borkmann")
Fixes: 5d92031a43b4 ("execve.2: Explicitly note that argv[argc] == NULL in the new program")
Fixes: 9f79744c9af3 ("keyctl.2: Improve KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE details")
Fixes: 1b6ab34c5320 ("attributes.7: New page describing POSIX safety concepts")
Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Cc: Mario Blaettermann <mario.blaettermann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/attributes.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/attributes.7 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man7/attributes.7 b/man7/attributes.7 index 7e5809eb89..3b2f59b3a2 100644 --- a/man7/attributes.7 +++ b/man7/attributes.7 @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ in others, they are not even exposed to users. .\" In some cases, such as .\" .BR tmpname (3), .\" the variant is chosen not by calling an alternate entry point, -.\" but by passing a non-NULL pointer to the buffer in which the +.\" but by passing a non-null pointer to the buffer in which the .\" returned values are to be stored. .\" These variants are generally preferable in multi-threaded programs, .\" although some of them are not MT-Safe because of other internal buffers, |