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sysctl.2: Use sizeof consistently
authorAlejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Thu, 3 Sep 2020 19:39:56 +0000 (21:39 +0200)
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Sat, 5 Sep 2020 12:49:42 +0000 (14:49 +0200)
Use ``sizeof`` consistently through all the examples in the following
way:

- Use the name of the variable instead of its type as argument for
  ``sizeof``.

Rationale:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.8/process/coding-style.html#allocating-memory

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
man2/sysctl.2

index 65f79516d83073e95416a6bec0a309945dc3916a..1610604902f7cd46b738d85f66a37b518e9e4ec2 100644 (file)
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ main(void)
     size_t osnamelth;
     int name[] = { CTL_KERN, KERN_OSTYPE };
 
-    memset(&args, 0, sizeof(struct __sysctl_args));
+    memset(&args, 0, sizeof(args));
     args.name = name;
     args.nlen = sizeof(name)/sizeof(name[0]);
     args.oldval = osname;