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authorwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2006-10-16 08:48:45 +0000
committerwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2006-10-16 08:48:45 +0000
commit1a64d82da5bc129cc68f0719e7f18fb075f6247a (patch)
tree9bed6db34c1c483a79322f31c59f61dfc111851b /lib/libc/string/string.3
parentaba3ac5c7320e086e8a7d48af9503e42a516b69e (diff)
nul/null/NULL cleanup:
when talking about characters/bytes, use "nul" and "nul-terminate" when talking about pointers, use "null pointer" or ".Dv NULL"
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string/string.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/string/string.36
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/string.3 b/lib/libc/string/string.3
index 6f560d62576..fab062f405e 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/string.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/string.3
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)string.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
-.\" $NetBSD: string.3,v 1.12 2003/08/07 16:43:51 agc Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: string.3,v 1.13 2006/10/16 08:48:45 wiz Exp $
.\"
.Dd December 11, 1993
.Dt STRING 3
@@ -105,11 +105,11 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The string
functions manipulate strings terminated by a
-null byte.
+nul byte.
.Pp
See the specific manual pages for more information.
For manipulating variable length generic objects as byte
-strings (without the null byte check), see
+strings (without the nul byte check), see
.Xr bstring 3 .
.Pp
Except as noted in their specific manual pages,