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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
commit | 3d08cd331c1adcf0d917392f7e527b3f00511748 (patch) | |
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parent | Adding debian version 6.7-2. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.8.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man3/rpmatch.3 b/man3/rpmatch.3 deleted file mode 100644 index dac2474..0000000 --- a/man3/rpmatch.3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,169 +0,0 @@ -'\" t -.\" Copyright (C) 2006 Justin Pryzby <pryzbyj@justinpryzby.com> -.\" -.\" %%%LICENSE_START(PERMISSIVE_MISC) -.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining -.\" a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -.\" "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including -.\" without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, -.\" distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to -.\" permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to -.\" the following conditions: -.\" -.\" The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be -.\" included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. -.\" -.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, -.\" EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF -.\" MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. -.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY -.\" CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, -.\" TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE -.\" SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -.\" %%%LICENSE_END -.\" -.\" References: -.\" glibc manual and source -.\" -.\" 2006-05-19, mtk, various edits and example program -.\" -.TH rpmatch 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -rpmatch \- determine if the answer to a question is affirmative or negative -.SH LIBRARY -Standard C library -.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.B #include <stdlib.h> -.P -.BI "int rpmatch(const char *" response ); -.fi -.P -.RS -4 -Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see -.BR feature_test_macros (7)): -.RE -.P -.BR rpmatch (): -.nf - Since glibc 2.19: - _DEFAULT_SOURCE - glibc 2.19 and earlier: - _SVID_SOURCE -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -.BR rpmatch () -handles a user response to yes or no questions, with -support for internationalization. -.P -.I response -should be a null-terminated string containing a -user-supplied response, perhaps obtained with -.BR fgets (3) -or -.BR getline (3). -.P -The user's language preference is taken into account per the -environment variables -.BR LANG , -.BR LC_MESSAGES , -and -.BR LC_ALL , -if the program has called -.BR setlocale (3) -to effect their changes. -.P -Regardless of the locale, responses matching -.B \[ha][Yy] -are always accepted as affirmative, and those matching -.B \[ha][Nn] -are always accepted as negative. -.SH RETURN VALUE -After examining -.IR response , -.BR rpmatch () -returns 0 for a recognized negative response ("no"), 1 -for a recognized positive response ("yes"), and \-1 when the value -of -.I response -is unrecognized. -.SH ERRORS -A return value of \-1 may indicate either an invalid input, or some -other error. -It is incorrect to only test if the return value is nonzero. -.P -.BR rpmatch () -can fail for any of the reasons that -.BR regcomp (3) -or -.BR regexec (3) -can fail; the cause of the error -is not available from -.I errno -or anywhere else, but indicates a -failure of the regex engine (but this case is indistinguishable from -that of an unrecognized value of -.IR response ). -.SH ATTRIBUTES -For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see -.BR attributes (7). -.TS -allbox; -lbx lb lb -l l l. -Interface Attribute Value -T{ -.na -.nh -.BR rpmatch () -T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale -.TE -.SH STANDARDS -None. -.SH HISTORY -GNU, FreeBSD, AIX. -.SH BUGS -The -.BR YESEXPR " and " NOEXPR -of some locales (including "C") only inspect the first character of the -.IR response . -This can mean that "yno" et al. resolve to -.BR 1 . -This is an unfortunate historical side-effect which should be fixed in time -with proper localisation, and should not deter from -.BR rpmatch () -being the proper way to distinguish between binary answers. -.SH EXAMPLES -The following program displays the results when -.BR rpmatch () -is applied to the string given in the program's command-line argument. -.P -.\" SRC BEGIN (rpmatch.c) -.EX -#define _DEFAULT_SOURCE -#include <locale.h> -#include <stdio.h> -#include <stdlib.h> -#include <string.h> -\& -int -main(int argc, char *argv[]) -{ - if (argc != 2 || strcmp(argv[1], "\-\-help") == 0) { - fprintf(stderr, "%s response\en", argv[0]); - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); - } -\& - setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); - printf("rpmatch() returns: %d\en", rpmatch(argv[1])); - exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); -} -.EE -.\" SRC END -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR fgets (3), -.BR getline (3), -.BR nl_langinfo (3), -.BR regcomp (3), -.BR setlocale (3) |