Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:10:05 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/unifdef unifdef.1 Message-ID: <20021204171005.GB54997@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20021204164938.GB90851@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200212041442.gB4EgnQL042381@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021204150932.GA47420@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20021204154157.GA49926@sunbay.com> <20021204164938.GB90851@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:49:38AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:41:57PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:09:32PM +0000, David Malone wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:42:49AM -0800, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > ru 2002/12/04 06:42:49 PST > > > > > > > > Modified files: > > > > usr.bin/unifdef unifdef.1 > > > > Log: > > > > mdoc(7) police: s/nul character/null character/. > > > > > > I always though it was the NULL pointer, but the nul character, > > > as given in the ascii man page? > > > > > http://www.asciitable.com/ > > > > "NUL character", or "null character", but not "nul character" -- > > the "nul" word doesn't exist, while NUL is the abbr. from "null": > > 'nul' is the name of ASCII character 0..see /usr/share/misc/ascii. > Why are you writing "ASCII" and not "ascii" then? :-) Abbreviations, which the NUL is, are in upper-case; both ascii(7) and /usr/share/misc/ascii should be fixed, to avoid the confusion. I'm scared to mention that, but Linux has more correct ascii(7) manpage: : Oct Dec Hex Char Oct Dec Hex Char : ------------------------------------------------------------ : 000 0 00 NUL '\0' 100 64 40 @ : 001 1 01 SOH 101 65 41 A : 002 2 02 STX 102 66 42 B : 003 3 03 ETX 103 67 43 C : 004 4 04 EOT 104 68 44 D : 005 5 05 ENQ 105 69 45 E : 006 6 06 ACK 106 70 46 F : 007 7 07 BEL '\a' 107 71 47 G Also, here are a few statistics from our mdoc(7) manpages: NULL: 897 null: 387 NUL: 139 nul: 14 Those that use "nul" are: bin/sh/bltin/echo.1 lib/libc/gen/uname.3 lib/libc/locale/iscntrl.3 lib/libstand/libstand.3 share/man/man7/ascii.7 sys/boot/libstand/libstand.3 usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1 usr.bin/hexdump/od.1 usr.sbin/kbdcontrol/kbdmap.5 Similar statistics from doc/en_US.ISO8859-1: NULL - 99, null - 335, NUL - 5, nul - 2 Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE97jbtUkv4P6juNwoRAp1vAJ99NuLKhPF13FIOcD2HFj9j23AMhwCfb7u3 TevHNGQETNolEyUgPcbQg9Y= =cvyR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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