A real minus can be cut and pasted...
THere are a few exceptions that gave been excluded in the this
change. For example, where there' is a string such as "<p1-name>",
where p1-name is soome sort of pseudo-identifier.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
It works both way, but this one feels more right. We are reading
four elements sizeof(*buffer) bytes each.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
man-pages bug: 211029
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211029
Complete workaround example
(it was too long for the page, but it may be useful here):
......
$ sudo ln -s -T /usr/bin/echo /usr/bin/-echo;
$ cc -o system_hyphen -x c - ;
#include <stdlib.h>
int
main(void)
{
system(" -echo Hello world!");
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
$ ./system_hyphen;
Hello world!
Reported-by: Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The parentheses here make it look like a function rather than a
command.
This was a typo introduced by a script-assisted global edit.
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
A more detailed notice is on realloc(3p).
......
$ man 3p realloc \
|sed -n \
-e '/APPLICATION USAGE/,/^$/p' \
-e '/FUTURE DIRECTIONS/,/^$/p';
APPLICATION USAGE
The description of realloc() has been modified from pre‐
vious versions of this standard to align with the
ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard. Previous versions explicitly
permitted a call to realloc(p, 0) to free the space
pointed to by p and return a null pointer. While this be‐
havior could be interpreted as permitted by this version
of the standard, the C language committee have indicated
that this interpretation is incorrect. Applications
should assume that if realloc() returns a null pointer,
the space pointed to by p has not been freed. Since this
could lead to double-frees, implementations should also
set errno if a null pointer actually indicates a failure,
and applications should only free the space if errno was
changed.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
This standard defers to the ISO C standard. While that
standard currently has language that might permit real‐
loc(p, 0), where p is not a null pointer, to free p while
still returning a null pointer, the committee responsible
for that standard is considering clarifying the language
to explicitly prohibit that alternative.
Bug: 211039 <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211039>
Reported-by: Johannes Pfister <johannes.pfister@josttech.ch>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
.PP are redundant just after .SH or .SS.
Remove them.
$ find man? -type f \
|xargs sed -i '/^\.S[HS]/{n;/\.PP/d}';
Plus a couple manual edits.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
This is implied in every other manual page. There is no need to
state it explicitly in these pages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
In the RETURN VALUE sections, a number of different wordings
are used in to describe the fact that 'errno' is set on error.
There's no reason for the difference in wordings, since the same
thing is being described in each case. Switch to a standard
wording that is the same as FreeBSD and similar to the wording
used in POSIX.1.
In this change, miscellaneous descriptions of the setting
of 'errno' are reworded to the norm of "is set to indicate
the error".
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
In the RETURN VALUE sections, a number of different wordings
are used in to describe the fact that 'errno' is set on error.
There's no reason for the difference in wordings, since the same
thing is being described in each case. Switch to a standard
wording that is the same as FreeBSD and similar to the wording
used in POSIX.1.
In this change, reword various cases saying that 'errno' is set
"appropriately" to "is set to indicate the error".
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
In the RETURN VALUE sections, a number of different wordings
are used in to describe the fact that 'errno' is set on error.
There's no reason for the difference in wordings, since the same
thing is being described in each case. Switch to a standard
wording that is the same as FreeBSD and similar to the wording
used in POSIX.1.
In this change, fix some instances stating that 'errno' is set
"appropriately" to instead say "to indicate the error".
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
In the RETURN VALUE sections, a number of different wordings
are used in to describe the fact that 'errno' is set on error.
There's no reason for the difference in wordings, since the same
thing is being described in each case. Switch to a standard
wording that is the same as FreeBSD and similar to the wording
used in POSIX.1.
In this change, "to indicate the cause of the error"
is changed to "to indicate the error".
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Since we are using .nf/.fi to bracket FTM info, escaping
space characters serves no space and clutters the source.
Reported-by: Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
- Group macros by kinds.
- Align so that it's easiest to distinguish differences
between related macros.
(Align all continuations for consistency on PDF.)
- Fix minor typos.
- Remove redundant text:
'The macro xxx() ...':
The first paragraph already says that these are macros.
'circular|tail|... queue':
Don't need to repeat every time.
Generic text makes it easier to spot the differences.
- Fit lines into 78 columns.
- Reorder descriptions to match SYNOPSIS,
and add subsections to DESCRIPTION.
- srcfix: fix a few semantic newlines.
I noticed a bug which should be fixed next:
CIRCLEQ_LOOP_*() return a 'struct TYPE *'.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Various ATTRIBUTES table improvements following the previous
commit. In particular, make use of T{...T} to allow wrapping
in table cells that have a lot of text.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Make the formatting more consistent inside the tables in the
ATTRIBUTES sections. Make the source code more uniform; in
particular, eliminate the use of custom tweaks using
'lbwNN'/'lwNN' and .br macros. In addition, ensure that
hyphenation and text justification do not occur inside the tables.
This is a script-driven edit:
[[
PAGE_LIST=$(git grep -l 'SH ATTRIBUTES' man[23])
# Strip out any preexisting .sp/.br/.ad macros
sed -i '/SH ATTR/,/^\.SH/{/^\.sp/d; /^\.br/d; /\.ad/d}' $PAGE_LIST
# Eliminate any use of 'wNN' in tables; default first column
# to fill unused space
sed -i '/SH ATTR/,/^\.SH/s/lbw[0-9]*/lb/g' $PAGE_LIST
sed -i '/SH ATTR/,/^\.SH/s/lw[0-9]*/l/g' $PAGE_LIST
sed -i '/SH ATTR/,/^\.SH/s/^lb /lbx /' $PAGE_LIST
# Nest the tables inside ".ad l"+".nh" and ".hy"+".ad"+".sp 1"
# ".ad l" ==> no right justification of text in table cells
# ".nh" ==> No hyphenation in table cells
# ".sp 1" ==> ensure a blank line before the next section heading
sed -i '/SH ATTR/,/^\.SH/{/\.TS/i.ad l\n.nh
}' $PAGE_LIST
sed -i '/SH ATTR/,/^\.SH/{/\.TE/a.hy\n.ad\n.sp 1
}' $PAGE_LIST
# In a few of the tables, the third column has a lot of text, so
# make that column wide (rather than the first column)
sed -i '/^lbx/{s/lbx/lb/;s/lb$/lbx/}' \
man3/bindresvport.3 \
man3/fmtmsg.3 man3/gethostbyname.3 man3/getlogin.3 \
man3/getnetent.3 man3/getprotoent.3 man3/getpwent.3 \
man3/getservent.3 man3/getspnam.3 man3/getutent.3 man3/glob.3 \
man3/login.3 \
man3/setnetgrent.3 \
man3/wordexp.3
]]
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
In the SYNOPSIS, a long function prototype may need to be
continued over to the next line. The continuation line is
indented according to the following rules:
1. If there is a single such prototype that needs to be continued,
then align the continuation line so that when the page is
rendered on a fixed-width font device (e.g., on an xterm) the
continuation line starts just below the start of the argument
list in the line above. (Exception: the indentation may be
adjusted if necessary to prevent a very long continuation line
or a further continuation line where the function prototype is
very long.)
Thus:
int tcsetattr(int fd, int optional_actions,
const struct termios *termios_p);
2. But, where multiple functions in the SYNOPSIS require
continuation lines, and the function names have different
lengths, then align all continuation lines to start in the
same column. This provides a nicer rendering in PDF output
(because the SYNOPSIS uses a variable width font where
spaces render narrower than most characters).
Thus:
int getopt(int argc, char * const argv[],
const char *optstring);
int getopt_long(int argc, char * const argv[],
const char *optstring,
const struct option *longopts, int *longindex);
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Alejandro Colomar