[PATCH v2 3/4] man/man3/mem*.3: NAME: Explain the names

Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jul 2026 17:09:17 +0200
Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-man
Message-ID	<dcc7a485cbe0f7fcef3bd16bd419a744d8c6e04b.1783523064.git.alx@kernel.org>
Reported-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Harris <[email protected]>
Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]>
Cc: Douglas McIlroy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>
---
 man/man3/memalign.3 | 4 +---
 man/man3/memccpy.3  | 2 +-
 man/man3/memchr.3   | 2 +-
 man/man3/memcmp.3   | 2 +-
 man/man3/memcpy.3   | 2 +-
 man/man3/memfrob.3  | 2 +-
 man/man3/memmem.3   | 2 +-
 man/man3/memmove.3  | 2 +-
 man/man3/mempcpy.3  | 2 +-
 man/man3/memset.3   | 2 +-
 10 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man3/memalign.3 b/man/man3/memalign.3
index 12e8a5bb0c33..5954693e3d30 100644
--- a/man/man3/memalign.3
+++ b/man/man3/memalign.3
@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH memalign 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
 .SH NAME
-memalign
-\-
-allocate aligned memory
+memalign \- memory aligned allocate
 .SH LIBRARY
 Standard C library
 .RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
diff --git a/man/man3/memccpy.3 b/man/man3/memccpy.3
index d21e7d014af6..706f8152f58c 100644
--- a/man/man3/memccpy.3
+++ b/man/man3/memccpy.3
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH memccpy 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
 .SH NAME
-memccpy \- copy memory area
+memccpy \- memory until-and-including-character copy
 .SH LIBRARY
 Standard C library
 .RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
diff --git a/man/man3/memchr.3 b/man/man3/memchr.3
index 40ea45fdfb83..0a493ff4029d 100644
--- a/man/man3/memchr.3
+++ b/man/man3/memchr.3
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH memchr 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
 .SH NAME
-memchr \- scan memory for a character
+memchr \- memory search character
 .SH LIBRARY
 Standard C library
 .RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
diff --git a/man/man3/memcmp.3 b/man/man3/memcmp.3
index 815bd10252fe..9cecb282ba4f 100644
--- a/man/man3/memcmp.3
+++ b/man/man3/memcmp.3
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH memcmp 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
 .SH NAME
-memcmp \- compare memory areas
+memcmp \- memory compare
 .SH LIBRARY
 Standard C library
 .RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
diff --git a/man/man3/memcpy.3 b/man/man3/memcpy.3
index c94c501b0374..f8f049bf5c4c 100644
--- a/man/man3/memcpy.3
+++ b/man/man3/memcpy.3
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH memcpy 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
 .SH NAME
-memcpy \- copy memory area
+memcpy \- memory copy
 .SH LIBRARY
 Standard C library
 .RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
diff --git a/man/man3/memfrob.3 b/man/man3/memfrob.3
index 90534b749c4c..ee41da0ced7b 100644
--- a/man/man3/memfrob.3
+++ b/man/man3/memfrob.3
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH memfrob 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
 .SH NAME
-memfrob \- frobnicate (obfuscate) a memory area
+memfrob \- memory frobnicate (obfuscate)
 .SH LIBRARY
 Standard C library
 .RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
diff --git a/man/man3/memmem.3 b/man/man3/memmem.3
index 0224a130537e..13fd8b7cea7b 100644
--- a/man/man3/memmem.3
+++ b/man/man3/memmem.3
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH memmem 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
 .SH NAME
-memmem \- locate a substring
+memmem \- memory search submemory
 .SH LIBRARY
 Standard C library
 .RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
diff --git a/man/man3/memmove.3 b/man/man3/memmove.3
index c549c6145176..99f152412142 100644
--- a/man/man3/memmove.3
+++ b/man/man3/memmove.3
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH memmove 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
 .SH NAME
-memmove \- copy memory area
+memmove \- memory move
 .SH LIBRARY
 Standard C library
 .RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
diff --git a/man/man3/mempcpy.3 b/man/man3/mempcpy.3
index d5ae5812758e..012e6326dd00 100644
--- a/man/man3/mempcpy.3
+++ b/man/man3/mempcpy.3
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH mempcpy 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
 .SH NAME
-mempcpy, wmempcpy  \- copy memory area
+mempcpy, wmempcpy  \- memory return-offset-pointer copy
 .SH LIBRARY
 Standard C library
 .RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
diff --git a/man/man3/memset.3 b/man/man3/memset.3
index 370ac64fdf25..91b3b476abf9 100644
--- a/man/man3/memset.3
+++ b/man/man3/memset.3
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH memset 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
 .SH NAME
-memset \- fill memory with a constant byte
+memset \- memory set
 .SH LIBRARY
 Standard C library
 .RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
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