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[Bug documentation/13103] substr man page flubs 3rd arg
- From: "mjw at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: systemtap at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:59:05 +0000
- Subject: [Bug documentation/13103] substr man page flubs 3rd arg
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- References: <bug-13103-6586@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13103
Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com> changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com> 2011-08-17 07:59:05 UTC ---
The GENERAL SYNTAX line was fixed by:
commit 86518ac521bab619698f36c3ec6fd1fe76a8d38b
Author: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Dec 8 20:40:24 2010 -0500
Edit tapset documentation comments
Made the following changes to the documentation comments:
- Remove the "General Syntax:" lines.
- Remove trailing '.' for the summaries.
- Make parameter information phrases rather than sentences
I just rewrote the DESCRIPTION section:
commit 5da8feffae62c98343630e87d2d7cc120415166c
Author: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Aug 17 09:55:33 2011 +0200
PR13103 substr 3 argument length description is wrong.
diff --git a/tapset/string.stp b/tapset/string.stp
index 9d3e65b..c3ecc4d 100644
--- a/tapset/string.stp
+++ b/tapset/string.stp
@@ -25,8 +25,10 @@ function strlen:long(s:string) %{ /* pure */ /* unprivileged
* @start: starting position of the extracted string (first character is 0)
* @length: length of string to return
*
- * Description: Returns the substring of the up to the given length
- * starting at the given start position and ending at given stop position.
+ * Description: Returns the substring of the given string at the given
+ * start position with the given length (or smaller if the length of the
+ * original string is less than start + length, or length is bigger than
+ * MAXSTRINGLEN).
*/
function substr:string(str:string,start:long, length:long) %{ /* pure */ /*
unp
int64_t length = clamp_t(int64_t, THIS->length + 1, 0, MAXSTRINGLEN);
Now trying to figure out how to update the online copy of the manpages on
sourceware.
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