Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:06:14 +0000 (UTC) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r284967 - head/share/man/man9 Message-ID: <201506301906.t5UJ6EDb066550@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: jmg Date: Tue Jun 30 19:06:14 2015 New Revision: 284967 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/284967 Log: add units to the length and count so that it's clear what they are measured in... Gems like: "len is the length of the buffer." aren't useful in man pages. Modified: head/share/man/man9/hash.9 Modified: head/share/man/man9/hash.9 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man9/hash.9 Tue Jun 30 18:58:33 2015 (r284966) +++ head/share/man/man9/hash.9 Tue Jun 30 19:06:14 2015 (r284967) @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" $OpenBSD: hash.9,v 1.5 2003/04/17 05:08:39 jmc Exp $ .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 18, 2014 +.Dd June 30, 2015 .Dt HASH 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ These functions can be used to hash .Dv NUL terminated strings, as well as blocks of memory. .Pp +A +.Fa len +argument is the length of the buffer in bytes. +A +.Fa count +argument is the length of the buffer in 32-bit words. +.Pp The .Fn hash32_buf function is used as a general buffer hashing function. @@ -79,7 +86,7 @@ The argument .Fa buf is used to pass in the location, and .Fa len -is the length of the buffer. +is the length of the buffer in bytes. The argument .Fa hash is used to extend an existing hash, or is passed the initial valuehome | help
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