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authorAndrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>2022-09-22 06:54:37 -0700
committerAndrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>2022-09-22 06:54:37 -0700
commit60ff008d95584cc18701e98ed3cc4fa3d6cef9cb (patch)
treeed2805c17c5e070411b134bf43526f2c0d098a40
parent281b6e47e1a0d0235cc97d302548bdacdd53a019 (diff)
downloadlibcap-60ff008d95584cc18701e98ed3cc4fa3d6cef9cb.tar.gz
Fix typos in the cap_from_text.3 man page.
This addresses this bug reported by Paulo Andrade (thanks!): https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216514 Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--doc/cap_from_text.38
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/cap_from_text.3 b/doc/cap_from_text.3
index 9370e26..a0c9282 100644
--- a/doc/cap_from_text.3
+++ b/doc/cap_from_text.3
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
.\"
.\" written by Andrew Main <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
.\"
-.TH CAP_FROM_TEXT 3 "2021-03-06" "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH CAP_FROM_TEXT 3 "2022-09-22" "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
cap_from_text, cap_to_text, cap_to_name, cap_from_name \- capability
state textual representation translation
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ state textual representation translation
#include <sys/capability.h>
cap_t cap_from_text(const char* buf_p );
-char *cap_to_text(cap_t caps, ssize_t * length_p);
+char *cap_to_text(cap_t caps, ssize_t * len_p);
int cap_from_name(const char* name , cap_value_t* cap_p);
char *cap_to_name(cap_value_t cap);
.fi
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ is both set and cleared within a single clause.
.PP
.BR cap_to_text ()
converts the capability state in working storage identified by
-.I cap_p
+.I caps
into a nul-terminated human-readable string. This function allocates
any memory necessary to contain the string, and returns a pointer to
the string. If the pointer
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ the function shall also return the full length of the string (not including
the nul terminator) in the location pointed to by
.IR len_p .
The capability state in working storage, identified by
-.IR cap_p ,
+.IR caps ,
is completely represented in the character string.
When the capability state in working storage is no longer required,
the caller should free any releasable memory by calling