Bug 215848
| Summary: | [patch] Ambiguity in returns for mbsrtowcs | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Andrew Stevenson <andrew> | ||||
| Component: | Manual Pages | Assignee: | Gordon Bergling <gbe> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Some People | CC: | doc, gbe | ||||
| Priority: | --- | Keywords: | patch | ||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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A commit references this bug: Author: gbe Date: Fri Aug 7 16:56:43 UTC 2020 New revision: 364031 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/364031 Log: mbsrtowcs(3): Clarify the RETURN VALUES section PR: 215848 Submitted by: Andrew Stevenson <andrew at ugh dot net dot au> MFC after: 1 week Changes: head/lib/libc/locale/mbsrtowcs.3 Committed, thanks for the patch! A commit references this bug: Author: gbe Date: Fri Aug 14 06:44:34 UTC 2020 New revision: 364229 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/364229 Log: MFC r364031: mbsrtowcs(3): Clarify the RETURN VALUES section PR: 215848 Submitted by: Andrew Stevenson <andrew at ugh dot net dot au> Changes: _U stable/12/ stable/12/lib/libc/locale/mbsrtowcs.3 |
Created attachment 178593 [details] diff to mbsrtowcs.3 It's not clear from the man pages of several multi-byte and wide character functions that, if you pass NULL as the destination, they return the number of characters that would have been written where dst an actual array. I attach a diff to fix one of them. I haven't done others because: a) I need to confirm which ones this is true for and b) I wasn't sure how great my wording was. If someone who knows more about this than I wants to make similar changes to other man pages then that is great. Otherwise, once final wording is decided upon, I might get time to test and submit more. I am using 11-stable r310981