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| author | jmg <jmg@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-06-30 19:06:14 +0000 |
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| committer | jmg <jmg@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-06-30 19:06:14 +0000 |
| commit | 340fd3591ac9bab159284d82555e3e850072ab20 (patch) | |
| tree | c0f267d2a557f28b44dd867e255084791d8898e9 /share | |
| parent | 03c73d6a38adbcbeafa91923e96459aefb6188e8 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-340fd3591ac9bab159284d82555e3e850072ab20.zip FreeBSD-src-340fd3591ac9bab159284d82555e3e850072ab20.tar.gz | |
add units to the length and count so that it's clear what they
are measured in... Gems like: "len is the length of the buffer."
aren't useful in man pages.
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/hash.9 | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/hash.9 b/share/man/man9/hash.9 index 961be0b5..3276fd1 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/hash.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/hash.9 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" $OpenBSD: hash.9,v 1.5 2003/04/17 05:08:39 jmc Exp $ .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 18, 2014 +.Dd June 30, 2015 .Dt HASH 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ These functions can be used to hash .Dv NUL terminated strings, as well as blocks of memory. .Pp +A +.Fa len +argument is the length of the buffer in bytes. +A +.Fa count +argument is the length of the buffer in 32-bit words. +.Pp The .Fn hash32_buf function is used as a general buffer hashing function. @@ -79,7 +86,7 @@ The argument .Fa buf is used to pass in the location, and .Fa len -is the length of the buffer. +is the length of the buffer in bytes. The argument .Fa hash is used to extend an existing hash, or is passed the initial value |
