Update grammar and spelling in docs and source code comments.
Closes: #7427
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
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Releases the previously referenced buffer, then duplicates the `length`-byte
-`data` into a buffer allocated via `malloc()` and references the later
+`data` into a buffer allocated via `malloc()` and references the latter
associated with destructor `curl_free()`.
An additional trailing byte is allocated and set to zero as a possible
HackerOne](https://hackerone.com/curl).
This ensures that the report reaches the curl security team so that they
- first can be deal with the report away from the public to minimize the harm
+ first can deal with the report away from the public to minimize the harm
and impact it will have on existing users out there who might be using the
vulnerable versions.
If curl crashed, causing a core dump (in unix), there is hardly any use to
send that huge file to anyone of us. Unless we have an exact same system
- setup as you, we can't do much with it. Instead we ask you to get a stack
+ setup as you, we can't do much with it. Instead, we ask you to get a stack
trace and send that (much smaller) output to us instead!
The address and how to subscribe to the mailing lists are detailed in the
experiencing.
Security wise, it is almost always a bad idea to lag behind the current curl
- versions by a lot. We keeping discovering and reporting security problems
+ versions by a lot. We keep discovering and reporting security problems
over time see you can see in [this
table](https://curl.se/docs/vulnerabilities.html)
## How to provide feedback to author
Be nice. Ask questions. Provide examples or suggestions of improvements.
-Assume best intentions. Remember language barriers.
+Assume the best intentions. Remember language barriers.
All first-time contributors can become regulars. Let's help them go there.
## Code style
Most code style nits are detected by checksrc but not all. Only leave remarks
-on style deviation once checksrc doesn't find any more.
+on style deviation once checksrc doesn't find anymore.
Minor nits from fresh submitters can also be handled by the maintainer when
merging, in case it seems like the submitter isn't clear on what to do. We
## Documentation
-New features or changes to existing functionality **must** be accompanied with
+New features or changes to existing functionality **must** be accompanied by
updated documentation. Submitting that in a separate follow-up pull request is
not OK. A code review must also verify that the submitted documentation update
matches the code submission.
We strongly prefer pull requests to mailed patches, as it makes it a proper
git commit that is easy to merge and they are easy to track and not that easy
-to loose in the flood of many emails, like they sometimes do on the mailing
+to lose in the flood of many emails, like they sometimes do on the mailing
lists.
Every pull request submitted will automatically be tested in several different
If any of these deprecated features is a cause for concern for you, please
email the curl-library mailing list as soon as possible and explain to us why
this is a problem for you and how your use case can't be satisfied properly
-using a work around.
+using a workaround.
## Past removals
### PR 4011 (Jun 2019) expected in curl release 7.67.0 (Oct 2019)
-- Details [below](#pr4011);
+- Details [below](#pr-4011);
- New configuration option: `--enable-ech`;
A libcurl upgrade does not break the ABI or change established and documented
behavior. Your application can remain using libcurl just as before, only with
- less bugs and possibly with added new features.
+ fewer bugs and possibly with added new features.
## Version Numbers
*
* - Stat gives a size but this is UNRELIABLE in VMS As a f.e. a
* fixed file with implied CC needs to have a byte added for every
- * record processed, this can by derived from Filesize & recordsize
+ * record processed, this can be derived from Filesize & recordsize
* for VARiable record files the records need to be counted! for
* every record add 1 for linefeed and subtract 2 for the record
* header for VARIABLE header files only the bare record data needs
}
if(outs->bytes && outs->filename && outs->stream) {
int rc;
- /* We have written data to a output file, we truncate file
+ /* We have written data to an output file, we truncate file
*/
if(!global->mute)
fprintf(global->errors, "Throwing away %"
input->config = config;
/* Note that if CURLOPT_READFUNCTION is fread (the default), then
* lib/telnet.c will Curl_poll() on the input file descriptor
- * rather then calling the READFUNCTION at regular intervals.
+ * rather than calling the READFUNCTION at regular intervals.
* The circumstances in which it is preferable to enable this
* behavior, by omitting to set the READFUNCTION & READDATA options,
* have not been determined.
/* In debug build of curl tool, using
* --cert loadmem=<filename>:<password> --cert-type p12
- * must do the same thing than classic:
+ * must do the same thing as classic:
* --cert <filename>:<password> --cert-type p12
* but is designed to test blob */
#if defined(CURLDEBUG) || defined(DEBUGBUILD)
}
else {
/* Free this URL node data without destroying the
- the node itself nor modifying next pointer. */
+ node itself nor modifying next pointer. */
Curl_safefree(urlnode->outfile);
Curl_safefree(urlnode->infile);
urlnode->flags = 0;
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