Re: realpath.3 wording

2017-03-06 Thread Martin Husemann
On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 08:19:42PM +0100, Timo Buhrmester wrote: > > > In the error case > > Fine by me (although I find the semicolon sufficient to communicate > > that it's still referring to the error case). > Ping? Paul just fixed it. Martin

Re: realpath.3 wording

2017-03-05 Thread Timo Buhrmester
> > In the error case > Fine by me (although I find the semicolon sufficient to communicate > that it's still referring to the error case). Ping?

Re: realpath.3 wording

2017-02-20 Thread Timo Buhrmester
(forgot to cc the list) > In the error case Fine by me (although I find the semicolon sufficient to communicate that it's still referring to the error case).

Re: realpath.3 wording

2017-02-20 Thread Martin Husemann
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 03:17:54PM +0100, Timo Buhrmester wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 03:05:40PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > > You mean "is" ? > That would give "[...] is resolvedname was not allocated by realpath()". > > I really did mean 'if' because IF resolvedname is caller-allocated,

Re: realpath.3 wording

2017-02-20 Thread Timo Buhrmester
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 03:05:40PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > You mean "is" ? That would give "[...] is resolvedname was not allocated by realpath()". I really did mean 'if' because IF resolvedname is caller-allocated, realpath(3) will store information about the offending pathname there.

Re: realpath.3 wording

2017-02-20 Thread Martin Husemann
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 03:02:49PM +0100, Timo Buhrmester wrote: > > If an error occurs, realpath() returns NULL, > > and resolvedname was not allocated by realpath(), > > it will contain the pathname which caused the problem. > Had to read it thrice before it made sense. Maybe this is slightly be

realpath.3 wording

2017-02-20 Thread Timo Buhrmester
> If an error occurs, realpath() returns NULL, > and resolvedname was not allocated by realpath(), > it will contain the pathname which caused the problem. Had to read it thrice before it made sense. Maybe this is slightly better: --- lib/libc/gen/realpath.3.orig +++ lib/libc/gen/realpath.3 @@ -8