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authorTim Kientzle <kientzle@gmail.com>2008-04-30 17:57:11 -0400
committerTim Kientzle <kientzle@gmail.com>2008-04-30 17:57:11 -0400
commit6b5479805c20f24fc074262b51d74cdd2a9b8027 (patch)
tree87cda7484177cc2c0ccdc0b058e3f66d3d354291 /libarchive/tar.5
parent9d2e02e2d879ef6c4dae68bf0791c335a35a7137 (diff)
downloadlibarchive-6b5479805c20f24fc074262b51d74cdd2a9b8027.tar.gz
More synchronizing with my local repository.
SVN-Revision: 6
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diff --git a/libarchive/tar.5 b/libarchive/tar.5
index ab39df33..c873a938 100644
--- a/libarchive/tar.5
+++ b/libarchive/tar.5
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ field with several new type values:
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
.It Dq 0
Regular file.
-NULL should be treated as a synonym, for compatibility purposes.
+NUL should be treated as a synonym, for compatibility purposes.
.It Dq 1
Hard link.
.It Dq 2
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ by readers.
.It Va magic
Contains the magic value
.Dq ustar
-followed by a NULL byte to indicate that this is a POSIX standard archive.
+followed by a NUL byte to indicate that this is a POSIX standard archive.
Full compliance requires the uname and gname fields be properly set.
.It Va version
Version.
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ character to the regular name field to obtain the full pathname.
.El
.Pp
Note that all unused bytes must be set to
-.Dv NULL .
+.Dv NUL .
.Pp
Field termination is specified slightly differently by POSIX
than by previous implementations.
@@ -295,14 +295,14 @@ The
and
.Va gname
fields must have a trailing
-.Dv NULL .
+.Dv NUL .
The
.Va pathname ,
.Va linkname ,
and
.Va prefix
fields must have a trailing
-.Dv NULL
+.Dv NUL
unless they fill the entire field.
(In particular, it is possible to store a 256-character pathname if it
happens to have a
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ happens to have a
as the 156th character.)
POSIX requires numeric fields to be zero-padded in the front, and allows
them to be terminated with either space or
-.Dv NULL
+.Dv NUL
characters.
.Pp
Currently, most tar implementations comply with the ustar