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Date:      Wed, 4 Dec 2002 09:35:10 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/unifdef unifdef.1
Message-ID:  <20021204173510.GA43776@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021204171417.GC54997@sunbay.com>
References:  <200212041442.gB4EgnQL042381@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021204150932.GA47420@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20021204154157.GA49926@sunbay.com> <20021204164938.GB90851@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021204171005.GB54997@sunbay.com> <20021204171417.GC54997@sunbay.com>

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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:14:17PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:10:05PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > Also, here are a few statistics from our mdoc(7) manpages:
> > 
> > NULL: 897
> > null: 387
> > NUL: 139
> > nul: 14
> > 
> > Similar statistics from doc/en_US.ISO8859-1:
> > 
> > NULL - 99, null - 335, NUL - 5, nul - 2
> > 
> POSIX.1-2001 definition:
> 
> 3.242 NUL
>     A character with all bits set to zero.
> 
> The same statistics from POSIX.1-2001 draft 7:
> 
> NULL: 245
> null: 924
> NUL: 65
> nul: 5
> 
> Do you need more?  :-)

It doesn't matter how many sources you quote showing inconsistency.  MANY
people explicitly use nul/NUL vs. null/NULL to distinguish between '\0' and
"#include <stdio.h>'s NULL".  Please consider changing the spelling to
the form many FreeBSD'ers seem to be preferring.  We don't have to always
follow the Linux/POSUX masses.

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