I noticed that vis(3) talks about "NUL terminated" strings, whereas
almost other sources (including e.g. strlcat(3), strtok(3), strpbrk(3))
talk about "NUL-terminated" strings (i.e. with a hyphen.)

The following patch fixes this.

                Joachim

Index: vis.3
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/src/lib/libc/gen/vis.3,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -p -r1.24 vis.3
--- vis.3       31 May 2007 19:19:29 -0000      1.24
+++ vis.3       22 Apr 2010 09:10:09 -0000
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ a string which represents the character
 If
 .Fa c
 needs no encoding, it is copied in unaltered.
-The string is NUL terminated and a pointer to the end of the string is
+The string is NUL-terminated and a pointer to the end of the string is
 returned.
 The maximum length of any encoding is four
 characters (not including the trailing NUL);
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ characters from
 .Fa src
 (this
 is useful for encoding a block of data that may contain NULs).
-All three forms NUL terminate
+All three forms NUL-terminate
 .Fa dst ,
 except for
 .Fn strnvis

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