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Date:      Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:46:12 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Matthew D Fleming <mdf@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r222566 - stable/8/share/man/man9
Message-ID:  <201106011546.p51FkCd6076098@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: mdf
Date: Wed Jun  1 15:46:12 2011
New Revision: 222566
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/222566

Log:
  MFC r212364:
  
  Fix small errors in the sbuf(9) man page.

Modified:
  stable/8/share/man/man9/sbuf.9
Directory Properties:
  stable/8/share/man/man9/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/8/share/man/man9/sbuf.9
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/share/man/man9/sbuf.9	Wed Jun  1 14:41:08 2011	(r222565)
+++ stable/8/share/man/man9/sbuf.9	Wed Jun  1 15:46:12 2011	(r222566)
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 The
 .Nm
 family of functions allows one to safely allocate, construct and
-release bounded null-terminated strings in kernel space.
+release bounded NUL-terminated strings in kernel space.
 Instead of arrays of characters, these functions operate on structures
 called
 .Fa sbufs ,
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ overflowed.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn sbuf_finish
-function null-terminates the
+function NUL-terminates the
 .Fa sbuf
 and marks it as finished, which means that it may no longer be
 modified using
@@ -298,7 +298,10 @@ modified using
 .Fn sbuf_cpy ,
 .Fn sbuf_printf
 or
-.Fn sbuf_putc .
+.Fn sbuf_putc ,
+until
+.Fn sbuf_clear
+is used to reset the sbuf.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn sbuf_data
@@ -309,7 +312,9 @@ functions return the actual string and i
 only works on a finished
 .Fa sbuf .
 .Fn sbuf_done
-returns non-zero if the sbuf is finished.
+returns non-zero if the
+.Fa sbuf
+is finished.
 .Sh NOTES
 If an operation caused an
 .Fa sbuf



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