From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 23 23: 9: 9 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7008137B41B; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:09:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3O68dHx097288; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:08:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Alexey Dokuchaev Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , "David E. O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libcam camlib.h In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:04:49 +0700." <20020424130449.A34334@regency.nsu.ru> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:08:39 +0200 Message-ID: <97287.1019628519@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message