[PATCH] regex.3: wfix

Alejandro Colomar colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 12:24:15 GMT 2020


The wording was incorrect:

It stated that 'eflags' may be the OR of one or two of those two flags,
but then a third flag was documented
(which according to the previous wording could not be used?!).
Moreover, the wording also disallowed using 0 (i.e., no flags at all),
which POSIX specifically allows;
I tested the function with no flags and it worked fine for me,
so I guess it was a problem with the documentation,
and not with the implementation itself.

POSIX ref: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
---

Hi Michael,

I was working with the example, and the documentation was a bit weird,
so I want to be sure I'm doing it right before sending you the example.
Please review that this patch is correct, which I guess it is.

Cheers,

Alex

 man3/regex.3 | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man3/regex.3 b/man3/regex.3
index d4f7a09e7..a7e04f7b5 100644
--- a/man3/regex.3
+++ b/man3/regex.3
@@ -136,11 +136,7 @@ are used to provide information regarding the location of any matches.
 .I eflags
 may be the
 .RB bitwise- or
-of one or both of
-.B REG_NOTBOL
-and
-.B REG_NOTEOL
-which cause changes in matching behavior described below.
+of zero or more of the following flags:
 .TP
 .B REG_NOTBOL
 The match-beginning-of-line operator always fails to match (but see the
-- 
2.28.0



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