Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:44:32 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, 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: <20021204174432.GA60695@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20021204173510.GA43776@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200212041442.gB4EgnQL042381@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021204150932.GA47420@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20021204154157.GA49926@sunbay.com> <20021204164938.GB90851@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021204171005.GB54997@sunbay.com> <20021204171417.GC54997@sunbay.com> <20021204173510.GA43776@dragon.nuxi.com>
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--AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:35:10AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:14:17PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:10:05PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > Also, here are a few statistics from our mdoc(7) manpages: > > >=20 > > > NULL: 897 > > > null: 387 > > > NUL: 139 > > > nul: 14 > > >=20 > > > Similar statistics from doc/en_US.ISO8859-1: > > >=20 > > > NULL - 99, null - 335, NUL - 5, nul - 2 > > >=20 > > POSIX.1-2001 definition: > >=20 > > 3.242 NUL > > A character with all bits set to zero. > >=20 > > The same statistics from POSIX.1-2001 draft 7: > >=20 > > NULL: 245 > > null: 924 > > NUL: 65 > > nul: 5 > >=20 > > Do you need more? :-) >=20 > It doesn't matter how many sources you quote showing inconsistency. MANY These sources show the consistency. > people explicitly use nul/NUL vs. null/NULL to distinguish between '\0' a= nd > "#include <stdio.h>'s NULL". Please consider changing the spelling to > the form many FreeBSD'ers seem to be preferring. We don't have to always > follow the Linux/POSUX masses. >=20 As could be seen from the above statistics, FreeBSD'ers also prefer "NUL" and "null" over "nul". The character is defined as ``NUL (null character)'' in ASCII, where "null" is a normal English word in this context. Cheers, --=20 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 --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE97j7/Ukv4P6juNwoRAlymAJ9teBh1H1FngY0u/QTW+485sgzLWACfbKK/ kg67o7Fo+kO2iL+qmkNiE0g= =GKzp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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