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null-terminated vs. nul-terminated (was: Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/gen)



Am 24.03.2022 um 02:55 schrieb David H. Gutteridge:
Module Name:	src
Committed By:	gutteridge
Date:		Thu Mar 24 01:55:15 UTC 2022

Modified Files:
	src/lib/libc/gen: popen.3

Log Message:
popen.3: minor spelling, grammar, style, and xref tweaks


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.22 -r1.23 src/lib/libc/gen/popen.3

The term "null-terminated string" is quite common when talking about C.
 In contrast, the word "nul" in "nul-terminated" always reminds me of
the character abbreviation in ASCII, which has a narrower scope than C.
 I prefer to keep "null-terminated" here.

Roland


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