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Diffstat (limited to 'manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/arith.texi | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/creature.texi | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/users.texi | 28 |
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/manual/arith.texi b/manual/arith.texi index 8ea9508e3e..5607c4cae9 100644 --- a/manual/arith.texi +++ b/manual/arith.texi @@ -588,9 +588,9 @@ In these situation one could use the function @code{__strto@var{XXX}_internal}. @var{XXX} here stands for any of the above forms. All numeric conversion functions (including the functions to process floating-point numbers) have such a counterpart. The -difference to the normal for is the extra argument at the end of the +difference to the normal form is the extra argument at the end of the parameter list. If this value has an non-zero value the handling of -number grouping is enabled. The advantage from using these functions is +number grouping is enabled. The advantage of using these functions is that the @var{tailptr} parameters allow to determine which part of the input is processed. The @code{scanf} functions don't provide this information. The drawback of using these functions is that they are not @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ number, no conversion is performed. In this case, @code{strtod} returns a value of zero and the value returned in @code{*@var{tailptr}} is the value of @var{string}. -In a locale other than the standard @code{"C"} or @code{"POSIX"} locale, +In a locale other than the standard @code{"C"} or @code{"POSIX"} locales, this function may recognize additional locale-dependent syntax. If the string has valid syntax for a floating-point number but the value @@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ because of underflow, @code{strtod} returns zero. It also sets @code{errno} to @code{ERANGE} if there was overflow or underflow. Since the value zero which is returned in the error case is also a valid -result the user should set the global variable @code{errno} to null +result the user should set the global variable @code{errno} to zero before calling this function. So one can test for failures after the call since all failures set @code{errno} to a non-zero value. @end deftypefun diff --git a/manual/creature.texi b/manual/creature.texi index babbb0ab05..423dce4544 100644 --- a/manual/creature.texi +++ b/manual/creature.texi @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Portability Guide is included. This is an superset of the POSIX.1 and POSIX.2 functionality and in fact @code{_POSIX_SOURCE} and @code{_POSIX_C_SOURCE} get automatically be defined. -But as the great unifaction of all Unices there is also functionality +But as the great unifiction of all Unices there is also functionality only available in BSD and SVID is included. If the macro @code{_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED} is also defined, even more @@ -111,8 +111,9 @@ get very strange errors at run time. @comment (none) @comment GNU -@defvr Macro _REENTRANT,_THREAD_SAFE -If you define one this macro, reentrant versions of several functions get +@defvr Macro _REENTRANT +@defvrx Macro _THREAD_SAFE +If you define one of these macros, reentrant versions of several functions get declared. Some of the functions are specified in POSIX.1c but many others are only available on a few other systems or are unique to GNU libc. The problem is that the standardization of the thread safe C library diff --git a/manual/users.texi b/manual/users.texi index ce6d526b4a..9e397d3d4d 100644 --- a/manual/users.texi +++ b/manual/users.texi @@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ strings which are pointed to by the elements of the result structure. This stream must correspond to a file in the same format as the standard password database file. -If the funciton returns null @var{result} points to the structure with +If the function returns null @var{result} points to the structure with the wanted data (normally this is in @var{result_buf}). If errors occured the return value is non-null and @var{result} contains a null pointer. @@ -914,9 +914,9 @@ result is placed in the user supplied structure pointed to by the elements of the result structure, are placed in the additional buffer or length @var{buflen} starting at @var{buffer}. -If the function returns null @var{result} points to the structure with +If the function returns zero @var{result} points to the structure with the wanted data (normally this is in @var{result_buf}). If errors -occured the return value is non-null and @var{result} contains a null +occured the return value is non-zero and @var{result} contains a null pointer. @end deftypefun @@ -1023,8 +1023,8 @@ strings which are pointed to by the elements of the result structure. If the return value is @code{0} the pointer returned in @var{result} points to the record which contains the wanted data (i.e., @var{result} -contains the value @var{result_buf}). In case the return value is non -null there is no group in the data base with group ID @var{gid} or the +contains the value @var{result_buf}). If the return value is non-zero +there is no group in the data base with group ID @var{gid} or the buffer @var{buffer} is too small to contain all the needed information. In the later case the global @var{errno} variable is set to @code{ERANGE}. @@ -1054,8 +1054,8 @@ strings which are pointed to by the elements of the result structure. If the return value is @code{0} the pointer returned in @var{result} points to the record which contains the wanted data (i.e., @var{result} -contains the value @var{result_buf}). In case the return value is non -null there is no group in the data base with group name @var{name} or the +contains the value @var{result_buf}). If the return value is non-zero +there is no group in the data base with group name @var{name} or the buffer @var{buffer} is too small to contain all the needed information. In the later case the global @var{errno} variable is set to @code{ERANGE}. @@ -1098,9 +1098,9 @@ strings which are pointed to by the elements of the result structure. This stream must correspond to a file in the same format as the standard group database file. -If the funciton returns null @var{result} points to the structure with +If the function returns zero @var{result} points to the structure with the wanted data (normally this is in @var{result_buf}). If errors -occured the return value is non-null and @var{result} contains a null +occured the return value is non-zero and @var{result} contains a null pointer. @end deftypefun @@ -1135,9 +1135,9 @@ result is placed in the user supplied structure pointed to by the elements of the result structure, are placed in the additional buffer or length @var{buflen} starting at @var{buffer}. -If the function returns null @var{result} points to the structure with +If the function returns zero @var{result} points to the structure with the wanted data (normally this is in @var{result_buf}). If errors -occured the return value is non-null and @var{result} contains a null +occured the return value is non-zero and @var{result} contains a null pointer. @end deftypefun @@ -1186,8 +1186,8 @@ in either of the input services must have the following form: @end smallexample Any of the fields in the triple can be empty which means anything -matches. While describing te functions we will see that the opposite -case is useful as well. I.e., there shall be entries which will not +matches. While describing the functions we will see that the opposite +case is useful as well. I.e., there may be entries which will not match any input. For entries like a name consisting of the single character @code{-} shall be used. @@ -1290,7 +1290,7 @@ also true for the name @code{-} which should not match any other string otherwise. The return value is @code{1} if an entry matching the given triple is -found in the netgroup. The return value is @code{0} is the netgroup +found in the netgroup. The return value is @code{0} if the netgroup itself is not found, the netgroup does not contain the triple or internal errors occured. @end deftypefun |