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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:18:00 +0700
From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libcam camlib.h
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 08:08:39AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, that's right, got confused by NULL-pointer ;-)
Thanks for clarification.

./danfe

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