[PATCH v3 3/4] man/man3/mem*.3: NAME: Explain the names
Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:50:03 +0200
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-man |
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| Message-ID | <69f0c458bec5303abae433a0e09b84b6b3612081.1785023118.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]> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <[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 ) -- 2.53.0
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