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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:08:39 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>
Cc:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libcam camlib.h 
Message-ID:  <97287.1019628519@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:04:49 %2B0700." <20020424130449.A34334@regency.nsu.ru> 

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In message <20020424130449.A34334@regency.nsu.ru>, Alexey Dokuchaev writes:
>On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:02:57PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 16:58:21 -0700, David E. O'Brien wrote:
>> > obrien      2002/04/23 16:58:21 PDT
>> > 
>> >   Modified files:
>> >     lib/libcam           camlib.h 
>> >   Log:
>> >   Do not +1 with MAXPATHLEN.
>> 
>> Why not?  What about the terminating NUL?
>
>Quite off-topic, but still worth mentioning ;-)
>
>Why people refer to '\0' as ``NUL'' but not ``NULL'' ??
>NUL is a bogus "device" thingy under Billy's early OSes.

NUL is the original name for the first position in the
ASCII table, way before Bill had learned to code.

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