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Michael Kerrisk 6b34fb3f5a execve.2, pipe.2, tee.2, fmemopen.3, mq_notify.3, qsort.3: Replace use of assert() by code that checks argc
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13569

As noted by Andrey:
The purpose of the assert macro, defined in <assert.h>,
is to provide a tool to check for programming mistakes
or program logic errors. However, the assert macro must
never be used to perform checks for run time errors,
since, with the NDEBUG macro defined, expressions within
the assert macro invocations are not evaluated/checked
for, resulting in behavior that was not originally intended.
...
The pages affected in the core package are

execve(2)
pipe(2)
tee(2)
fmemopen(3)
mq_notify(3)
qsort(3)

Reported-by: Andrey Vihrov <vihrov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2009-09-28 12:46:19 +02:00
man1 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-11-25 21:44:53 -05:00
man2 execve.2, pipe.2, tee.2, fmemopen.3, mq_notify.3, qsort.3: Replace use of assert() by code that checks argc 2009-09-28 12:46:19 +02:00
man3 execve.2, pipe.2, tee.2, fmemopen.3, mq_notify.3, qsort.3: Replace use of assert() by code that checks argc 2009-09-28 12:46:19 +02:00
man4 initrd.4: Various minor wording improvements. 2009-04-04 07:00:03 +13:00
man5 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2009-03-31 10:13:30 +13:00
man6 Wrapped long source lines 2008-07-06 15:10:32 +00:00
man7 capabilities.7: Fix version number for CAP_MKNOD in DS UID manipulations 2009-08-03 06:42:08 +02:00
man8 ldconfig.8: tstamp 2009-04-16 03:57:33 +12:00
scripts Script to remove the COLOPHON section from the man pages provided as 2008-01-13 08:32:15 +00:00
Changes Start of man-pages-3.23: updating Changes and Changes.old 2009-07-26 07:18:18 +02:00
Changes.old Changes.old: spfix 2009-07-26 07:19:27 +02:00
Makefile POSIX man pages are now in a separate package. 2008-06-05 09:52:50 +00:00
README Update descriptions of pages. 2008-06-05 11:27:44 +00:00
man-pages-3.23.Announce Start of man-pages-3.23: updating .Announce and .lsm files 2009-07-26 07:18:18 +02:00
man-pages-3.23.lsm Start of man-pages-3.23: updating .Announce and .lsm files 2009-07-26 07:18:18 +02:00

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