[src/trunk]: src/lib/libc/stdio Rephrase the NOTE about embedded NUL characte...

[apb <apb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/0726d3b24220
branches:  trunk
changeset: 802470:0726d3b24220
user:      apb <apb%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Tue Sep 16 08:42:20 2014 +0000

description:
Rephrase the NOTE about embedded NUL characters, using "apparent length"
for what strlen(3) reports, and "true length" for what the return value
reports.

diffstat:

 lib/libc/stdio/getdelim.3 |  12 ++++++------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diffs (24 lines):

diff -r 04e6a542f73c -r 0726d3b24220 lib/libc/stdio/getdelim.3
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/getdelim.3 Tue Sep 16 07:06:42 2014 +0000
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/getdelim.3 Tue Sep 16 08:42:20 2014 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"     $NetBSD: getdelim.3,v 1.12 2014/09/15 23:41:16 christos Exp $
+.\"     $NetBSD: getdelim.3,v 1.13 2014/09/16 08:42:20 apb Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -161,9 +161,9 @@
 .Fn getdelim
 and
 .Fn getline
-functions can return strings with length (as returned by
+functions can return results that include
+.Dv NUL
+characters, which can cause the apparent length reported by
 .Xr strlen 3
-on the returned line) less than the return value of the functions
-if the line happened to contain
-.Dv NUL
-characters.
+to be less than the true length reported by the
+return values of the functions.