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Giorgos Keramidas f56be64fb2 ``NULL is a specific instance of a null pointer constant; the generic is 
a "null pointer".''

Making good use of the excellent explanations sent to me by Ruslan
Ermilov, Garrett Wollman and Bruce Evans, correct the descriptions of
null pointers.  They are just "null pointers", not nil, not NULL or
".Dv NULL".

Suggested by:	ru, wollman, bde
Reviewed by:	ru, wollman
Pointy hat:	keramida
2004-12-23 23:45:25 +00:00
..
__error.c Fix the style of the SCM ID's. 2002-03-22 21:53:29 +00:00
_exit.2 Punctuation marks should be separate arguments in groff macros. 2004-12-22 16:20:12 +00:00
accept.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
access.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
acct.2 ``NULL is a specific instance of a null pointer constant; the generic is 2004-12-23 23:45:25 +00:00
adjtime.2 ``NULL is a specific instance of a null pointer constant; the generic is 2004-12-23 23:45:25 +00:00
aio_cancel.2 Refer to 1003.1 instead of 1003.2 in the Standards section. 2003-01-13 10:37:11 +00:00
aio_error.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
aio_read.2 Eliminate double whitespace. 2004-07-03 22:30:10 +00:00
aio_return.2 Refer to 1003.1 instead of 1003.2 in the Standards section. 2003-01-13 10:37:11 +00:00
aio_suspend.2 ``NULL is a specific instance of a null pointer constant; the generic is 2004-12-23 23:45:25 +00:00
aio_waitcomplete.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
aio_write.2 Eliminate double whitespace. 2004-07-03 22:30:10 +00:00
bind.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
brk.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
chdir.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
chflags.2 Eliminate double whitespace. 2004-07-03 22:30:10 +00:00
chmod.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
chown.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
chroot.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
clock_gettime.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
close.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
connect.2 Removed trailing whitespace. 2004-07-02 19:07:33 +00:00
dup.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
execve.2 Sort SEE ALSO references (in dictionary order, ignoring case). 2004-07-04 20:55:50 +00:00
extattr_get_file.2 Fix the NAME section making whatis(1) happy in particular. 2004-07-05 17:12:53 +00:00
fcntl.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
fhopen.2 english(4) police. 2002-12-27 12:15:40 +00:00
flock.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
fork.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
fsync.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
ftruncate.c Fix the style of the SCM ID's. 2002-03-22 21:53:29 +00:00
getdirentries.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
getdtablesize.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
getfh.2 Update .Dd value. 2004-04-06 09:06:45 +00:00
getfsstat.2 Clarify getfsstat(2) usage. 2004-07-16 01:18:13 +00:00
getgid.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
getgroups.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
getitimer.2 ``NULL is a specific instance of a null pointer constant; the generic is 2004-12-23 23:45:25 +00:00
getlogin.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
getpeername.2 Add restrict qualifiers. (docs) 2003-12-24 18:52:41 +00:00
getpgrp.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
getpid.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
getpriority.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
getrlimit.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
getrusage.2 Fix a case of _SC_CLK_TCK being misspelled as _SC_CLOCK_TCK. 2004-08-06 14:49:11 +00:00
getsid.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
getsockname.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
getsockopt.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
gettimeofday.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
getuid.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
intro.2 Eliminate some magic numbers and correct description of _PC_NO_TRUNC. 2004-07-08 20:27:38 +00:00
ioctl.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
issetugid.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
jail.2 Spelling fixes. 2004-06-21 18:57:32 +00:00
kenv.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
kill.2 - fix description of what processes SIGCONT can be sent to 2003-10-24 21:20:26 +00:00
kldfind.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
kldfirstmod.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
kldload.2 Document that kldload(2) can also return EEXIST. 2003-06-03 12:29:34 +00:00
kldnext.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
kldstat.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
kldsym.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
kldunload.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
kqueue.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
kse.2 Make less wrong for desciptions of signal handling 2004-10-08 20:40:30 +00:00
ktrace.2 Document the effect of sysctl tunables controlling p_candebug(9) on 2003-12-14 14:54:53 +00:00
link.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
lio_listio.2 Assorted mdoc(7) fixes. 2003-06-01 19:19:59 +00:00
listen.2 Document that listen() can return EINVAL now. 2003-01-17 19:25:27 +00:00
lseek.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
lseek.c Fix the style of the SCM ID's. 2002-03-22 21:53:29 +00:00
madvise.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
Makefile.inc Document lgetfh(2). 2004-04-05 10:17:56 +00:00
mincore.2 mdoc(7): Use the new feature of the .In macro. 2003-09-08 19:57:22 +00:00
minherit.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
mkdir.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
mkfifo.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
mknod.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
mlock.2 Add necessary whitespace to correct cross references. 2004-10-27 11:26:51 +00:00
mlockall.2 Fixed markup. 2004-07-03 23:14:34 +00:00
mmap.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
mmap.c Fix style (no space after return, twice-too-big continuation) and 2002-12-22 03:20:16 +00:00
modfind.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
modnext.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
modstat.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
mount.2 MNT_NODEV is deprecated. 2004-11-29 09:56:12 +00:00
mprotect.2 mdoc(7) police: markup laundry. 2003-02-23 01:47:49 +00:00
msync.2 Add a BUGS section and copy the wording from mmap(2)'s MAP_NOSYNC, 2004-09-03 06:24:25 +00:00
munmap.2 Document EINVAL for len == 0. 2003-11-10 08:02:05 +00:00
nanosleep.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
nfssvc.2 Fix typo. 2004-05-12 20:45:51 +00:00
ntp_adjtime.2 ntp_adjtime returns the current state of the clock (TIME_*) on success 2003-06-20 21:14:59 +00:00
ntp_gettime.2 Removed trailing whitespace. 2004-07-02 19:07:33 +00:00
open.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
pathconf.2 Eliminate some magic numbers and correct description of _PC_NO_TRUNC. 2004-07-08 20:27:38 +00:00
pipe.2 Eliminate double whitespace. 2004-07-03 22:30:10 +00:00
poll.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
pread.c Fix the style of the SCM ID's. 2002-03-22 21:53:29 +00:00
profil.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
ptrace.2 Document the new PT_LWPINFO request. In fact, the request is so new 2004-07-12 04:43:58 +00:00
pwrite.c Fix the style of the SCM ID's. 2002-03-22 21:53:29 +00:00
quotactl.2 mdoc(7): Properly mark C headers. 2003-09-10 19:24:35 +00:00
read.2 Nitpicking on grammar. 2004-11-15 13:55:33 +00:00
readlink.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
reboot.2 mdoc(7): Use the new feature of the .In macro. 2003-09-08 19:57:22 +00:00
recv.2 ``NULL is a specific instance of a null pointer constant; the generic is 2004-12-23 23:45:25 +00:00
rename.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
revoke.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
rfork.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
rmdir.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
rtprio.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
sched_get_priority_max.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
sched_setparam.2 Sort SEE ALSO references (in dictionary order, ignoring case). 2004-07-04 20:55:50 +00:00
sched_setscheduler.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
sched_yield.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
select.2 ``NULL is a specific instance of a null pointer constant; the generic is 2004-12-23 23:45:25 +00:00
semctl.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
semget.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
semop.2 Bring semop() closer the the opengroup standards. 2003-01-25 21:27:37 +00:00
send.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
sendfile.2 Since sendfile(2) works on regular files only, 2004-10-18 10:02:04 +00:00
setgroups.2 Documented missing EINVAL errno value 2003-11-19 13:05:50 +00:00
setpgid.2 Update the documentation for setpgrp(2) to reflect the access control 2004-02-08 12:38:30 +00:00
setregid.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
setresuid.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
setreuid.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
setsid.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
setuid.2 Fix the NAME section making whatis(1) happy in particular. 2004-07-05 17:12:53 +00:00
shm_open.2 Fix the NAME section making whatis(1) happy in particular. 2004-07-05 17:12:53 +00:00
shmat.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
shmctl.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
shmget.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
shutdown.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
sigaction.2 Eliminate double whitespace. 2004-07-03 22:30:10 +00:00
sigaltstack.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
sigpending.2 Unify cross-references between sigpending(2), sigprocmask(2), 2003-06-24 15:41:19 +00:00
sigprocmask.2 mdoc(7): Use the new feature of the .In macro. 2003-09-08 19:57:22 +00:00
sigreturn.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
sigstack.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
sigsuspend.2 Unify cross-references between sigpending(2), sigprocmask(2), 2003-06-24 15:41:19 +00:00
sigwait.2 Fixed markup. 2004-07-03 23:14:34 +00:00
socket.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
socketpair.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
stat.2 Document more fields of struct stat. 2004-11-15 14:16:31 +00:00
statfs.2 MNT_NODEV is deprecated. 2004-11-29 09:56:12 +00:00
swapon.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
symlink.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
sync.2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
sysarch.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
syscall.2 mdoc(7): Properly mark C headers. 2003-09-10 19:24:35 +00:00
truncate.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
truncate.c Fix the style of the SCM ID's. 2002-03-22 21:53:29 +00:00
umask.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
undelete.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
unlink.2 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
utimes.2 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
utrace.2 Fixed markup. 2004-07-03 23:14:34 +00:00
uuidgen.2 Correct a misspelled name of time_hi_and_version. 2003-06-27 13:41:29 +00:00
vfork.2 Sort SEE ALSO references (in dictionary order, ignoring case). 2004-07-04 20:55:50 +00:00
wait.2 Sort SEE ALSO references (in dictionary order, ignoring case). 2004-07-04 20:55:50 +00:00
write.2 Reword the last change a bit, add mdoc(7) markup. 2004-10-25 13:35:03 +00:00