From: Alejandro Colomar Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:24:15 +0000 (+0200) Subject: regex.3: wfix X-Git-Tag: man-pages-5.09~163 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4f2f24ff1335ab42a1500dfc2dd22643cd215566;p=thirdparty%2Fman-pages.git regex.3: wfix The wording was incorrect: It stated that 'eflags' may be the OR of one or two of those two flags, but then a third flag was documented (which according to the previous wording could not be used?!). Moreover, the wording also disallowed using 0 (i.e., no flags at all), which POSIX specifically allows; I tested the function with no flags and it worked fine for me, so I guess it was a problem with the documentation, and not with the implementation itself. POSIX ref: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- diff --git a/man3/regex.3 b/man3/regex.3 index 414011d912..97a3ff3e5e 100644 --- a/man3/regex.3 +++ b/man3/regex.3 @@ -135,11 +135,7 @@ are used to provide information regarding the location of any matches. .I eflags may be the .RB bitwise- or -of one or both of -.B REG_NOTBOL -and -.B REG_NOTEOL -which cause changes in matching behavior described below. +of zero or more of the following flags: .TP .B REG_NOTBOL The match-beginning-of-line operator always fails to match (but see the