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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
.\" Expanded the description of various flags
.\" Various wording fixes.
.\"
-.TH glob 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH glob 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
glob, globfree \- find pathnames matching a pattern, free memory from glob()
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <glob.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int glob(const char *restrict " pattern ", int " flags ,
.BI " int (*" errfunc ")(const char *" epath ", int " eerrno ),
.BI " glob_t *restrict " pglob );
@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ according to the rules used by the shell (see
No tilde expansion or parameter substitution is done; if you want
these, use
.BR wordexp (3).
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR globfree ()
function frees the dynamically allocated storage from an earlier call
to
.BR glob ().
-.PP
+.P
The results of a
.BR glob ()
call are stored in the structure pointed to by
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ This structure is of type
.IR <glob.h> )
and includes the following elements defined by POSIX.2 (more may be
present as an extension):
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
typedef struct {
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ typedef struct {
} glob_t;
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
Results are stored in dynamically allocated storage.
-.PP
+.P
The argument
.I flags
is made up of the bitwise OR of zero or more the following symbolic
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ character.
Normally, a backslash can be used to quote the following character,
providing a mechanism to turn off the special meaning
metacharacters.
-.PP
+.P
.I flags
may also include any of the following, which are GNU
extensions and not defined by POSIX.2:
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ However, the caller must still check that returned files
are directories.
(The purpose of this flag is merely to optimize performance when
the caller is interested only in directories.)
-.PP
+.P
If
.I errfunc
is not NULL,
@@ -216,14 +216,14 @@ is set,
.BR glob ()
will terminate after the call to
.IR errfunc .
-.PP
+.P
Upon successful return,
.I pglob\->gl_pathc
contains the number of matched pathnames and
.I pglob\->gl_pathv
contains a pointer to the list of pointers to matched pathnames.
The list of pointers is terminated by a null pointer.
-.PP
+.P
It is possible to call
.BR glob ()
several times.
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ In that case, the
flag has to be set in
.I flags
on the second and later invocations.
-.PP
+.P
As a GNU extension,
.I pglob\->gl_flags
is set to the flags specified,
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ T{
.BR globfree ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
-.sp 1
+.P
In the above table,
.I utent
in
@@ -319,15 +319,15 @@ These will store their error code in
.IR errno .
.SH EXAMPLES
One example of use is the following code, which simulates typing
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
ls \-l *.c ../*.c
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
in the shell:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
glob_t globbuf;