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Michael Kerrisk c6ec368541 getpwnam.3: Add an EXAMPLE program for getpwnam_r() 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2008-11-07 17:51:33 -05:00
Michael Kerrisk 3adc12e97f getpwnam.3: Rename arguments to getpwnam_r() and getpwuid_r() 
s/pwbuf/pwd/ and s/pwbufp/result/, for consistency
with POSIX.1 argument names.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2008-11-07 17:51:32 -05:00
Michael Kerrisk bbab485de0 getpwnam.3: Clarify and add more detail in RETURN VALUE description 
The page was a bit fuzzy in describing the return values for
various cases.  In particular, it needed to be more explicit
in describing what happens for the "not found" case.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504787

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
 2008-11-07 17:51:32 -05:00
Michael Kerrisk 0f200f076c Add/fix feature test macro requirements. 2008-08-29 15:50:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 44a2c3286c Even when the CONFORMING TO section is just a list of standards, 
they should be terminated by a period.
 2008-07-15 13:39:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c4bb193f3c s/parameter/argument/ when talking about the things given 
to a function call, for consistency with majority usage.
 2008-07-10 20:53:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b213341443 ffix 2008-07-10 12:54:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 18701562c1 s/user name/username/ 2008-06-30 14:36:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c825020667 Fixed unbalanced .nf/fi pairs. 2007-12-23 21:05:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 62218dc0fd Format SYNOPSIS consistently. 2007-12-23 08:20:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bd9b2a9c46 ffix 2007-12-22 22:10:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 94e9d9febd Replace "-" by "\-" where a real dash is required. 2007-12-22 16:40:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bd19142309 enclose code smaples/structure defns/etc in ".in +4n / .in" 2007-12-19 06:16:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a08ea57c20 Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session 
logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
 2007-12-19 05:53:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0daa9e92d0 Fix redundant formatting macros 2007-09-20 16:26:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cc4615cc78 Added/updated glibc feature test macro requirements 2007-07-08 12:11:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2f0af33ba6 ffix 2007-06-22 19:42:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 988db66164 strip trailing white space 2007-06-21 22:55:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3a72373c40 Added section numbers to page xrefs 2007-05-21 22:14:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60a90ecdae Convert function formatting of the form "\fBname\fP()" to ".BR name ()". 2007-05-12 09:06:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c13182efa3 Wrapped long lines, wrapped at sentence boundaries; stripped trailing 
white space.
 2007-04-12 22:42:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 68e1685c25 Updated CONFORMING TO section 2006-08-03 13:57:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 63aa9df02f Automated unformatting of parentheses using unformat_parens.sh 2005-10-19 07:07:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b2fc2945f Add NOTES text describing relationship of pw_dir and HOME and 
pointing out that applications should preferentially
inspect HOME
 2005-09-21 12:02:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 34c97781c7 s/id/ID/ 2005-07-19 06:20:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b14d4aa5b8 Classical BSD versions are now always named x.yBSD (formerly 
there was a mix of x.yBSD and BSD x.y).
 2005-07-18 15:05:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f936cf268d Minor wording changes 2005-07-04 08:58:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f2738b392c Replace mention of /etc/{passwd,group} by refernces to 
"passwd/group database", and LDAP and NIS.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316117

Miscellaneous wording improvements
Consistent DESCRIPTION and ERRORS wording across these pages.
 2005-07-01 16:50:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fea681dafb Import of man-pages 1.70 2004-11-03 13:51:07 +00:00