docs/141125: Typo of "NUL" in getline.3 man page

[Christian Brueffer]

The following reply was made to PR docs/141125; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer at FreeBSD.org>
To: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/141125: Typo of "NUL" in getline.3 man page
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:33:32 +0100

 On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 11:06:06PM +0000, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         141125
 > >Category:       docs
 > >Synopsis:       Typo of "NUL" in getline.3 man page
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-doc
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          doc-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 02 23:10:01 UTC 2009
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Jeremy Huddleston
 > >Release:        8.0
 > >Organization:
 > Apple
 > >Environment:
 > NA
 > >Description:
 > "NUL" was written where it should've been "NULL" in getline.3
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > Index: getline.3
 > ===================================================================
 > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/stdio/getline.3,v
 > retrieving revision 1.2
 > diff -u -p -r1.2 getline.3
 > --- getline.3	6 Apr 2009 13:50:04 -0000	1.2
 > +++ getline.3	2 Dec 2009 23:05:48 -0000
 > @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ and
 >  .Fn getline
 >  functions return the number of characters written, excluding the
 >  terminating
 > -.Dv NUL .
 > +.Dv NULL .
 >  The value \-1 is returned if an error occurs, or if end-of-file is reached.
 >  .Sh EXAMPLES
 >  The following code fragment reads lines from a file and
 > 
 > 
 
 Hi Jeremy,
 
 I don't feel this change is needed.  NUL is the common name for \0,
 as written in every ASCII table.  Maybe "NUL character" would be clearer
 though.
 
 - Christian
 
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