-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:27:06 +0200 Von: Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Michael Kerrisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Bug#431480: manpages-dev: incomplete utimes(2) man page and typo
> On 2007-07-20 08:31:03 +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > The copy of POSIX.1-2001 I am looking at is littered with the use of > terms > > like: > > > > NULL > > NULL pointer > > non-NULL > > a NULL pointer > > non-NULL value > > if ... is [not] NULL > > > > and so on. So one of us is confused by your last point; at the > > moment, I think it is you ;-). > > No, this seems to have been fixed in the 2004 edition of POSIX (Issue 6). > See > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/utimes.html > > It only uses the term "null pointer". Since it is the standard wording, > the man pages should be fixed too. How do you deduce that it is the "standard: wording? Because it uses that terminology that on one page? The wording of this particular spec may have changed (I'll take your word for it), but that doesn't change the point that the terms that I mentioned above are used throughout the standard (even in the POSIX.1 revision that is currently in progress.. I sere no problem with them. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages , read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
