[patch] Change multiple occurrences of "char **argv" to "char *argv[]" to remain consistent with the vast majority of manual pages.

[patch] Change multiple occurrences of "char **argv" to "char *argv[]" to remain consistent with the vast majority of manual pages.

[Thomas Voss]

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I've sent the patch as an attachment, but you can achieve the same effect with:
        sed -i s/int argc, char \*\*argv/int argc, char \*argv\[\]/ man*/*

 - Thomas Voss

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diff --git a/man2/bpf.2 b/man2/bpf.2
index 6e1ffa198..246053201 100644
--- a/man2/bpf.2
+++ b/man2/bpf.2
@@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ riscv (since Linux 5.1).
  * 4. print number of received TCP/UDP packets every second
  */
 int
-main(int argc, char **argv)
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     int sock, map_fd, prog_fd, key;
     long long value = 0, tcp_cnt, udp_cnt;
diff --git a/man2/copy_file_range.2 b/man2/copy_file_range.2
index 467a16300..03bafcffc 100644
--- a/man2/copy_file_range.2
+++ b/man2/copy_file_range.2
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ or server-side-copy (in the case of NFS).
 #include <unistd.h>
 
 int
-main(int argc, char **argv)
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     int fd_in, fd_out;
     struct stat stat;
diff --git a/man2/membarrier.2 b/man2/membarrier.2
index fec82f228..2771ebdcb 100644
--- a/man2/membarrier.2
+++ b/man2/membarrier.2
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ slow_path(int *read_a)
 }
 
 int
-main(int argc, char **argv)
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     int read_a, read_b;
 
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ slow_path(int *read_a)
 }
 
 int
-main(int argc, char **argv)
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     int read_a, read_b;
 
diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2
index 3bfc7c103..229fadc7f 100644
--- a/man2/perf_event_open.2
+++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2
@@ -3762,7 +3762,7 @@ perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *hw_event, pid_t pid,
 }
 
 int
-main(int argc, char **argv)
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     struct perf_event_attr pe;
     long long count;
diff --git a/man2/seccomp.2 b/man2/seccomp.2
index a3421871f..8c80fb7bb 100644
--- a/man2/seccomp.2
+++ b/man2/seccomp.2
@@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ install_filter(int syscall_nr, int t_arch, int f_errno)
 }
 
 int
-main(int argc, char **argv)
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     if (argc < 5) {
         fprintf(stderr, "Usage: "
diff --git a/man3/bsearch.3 b/man3/bsearch.3
index 25ab3e8de..43e8b9c57 100644
--- a/man3/bsearch.3
+++ b/man3/bsearch.3
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ compmi(const void *m1, const void *m2)
 }
 
 int
-main(int argc, char **argv)
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     qsort(months, nr_of_months, sizeof(months[0]), compmi);
     for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
diff --git a/man3/getopt.3 b/man3/getopt.3
index 0d6ad1c54..ce4c28088 100644
--- a/man3/getopt.3
+++ b/man3/getopt.3
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ with most of its features.
 #include <getopt.h>
 
 int
-main(int argc, char **argv)
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     int c;
     int digit_optind = 0;
diff --git a/man3/getsubopt.3 b/man3/getsubopt.3
index 99d112e63..2649984bb 100644
--- a/man3/getsubopt.3
+++ b/man3/getsubopt.3
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ The following program expects suboptions following a "\-o" option.
 #include <stdio.h>
 
 int
-main(int argc, char **argv)
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     enum {
         RO_OPT = 0,
diff --git a/man3/pthread_setname_np.3 b/man3/pthread_setname_np.3
index a1fb3fa21..77c18a3cf 100644
--- a/man3/pthread_setname_np.3
+++ b/man3/pthread_setname_np.3
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ threadfunc(void *parm)
 }
 
 int
-main(int argc, char **argv)
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     pthread_t thread;
     int rc;
diff --git a/man3/wordexp.3 b/man3/wordexp.3
index c583d559e..0aef4cc68 100644
--- a/man3/wordexp.3
+++ b/man3/wordexp.3
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ is approximately that of "ls [a-c]*.c".
 #include <wordexp.h>
 
 int
-main(int argc, char **argv)
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     wordexp_t p;
     char **w;
diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7
index 6a7e70d75..9c218fd06 100644
--- a/man7/fanotify.7
+++ b/man7/fanotify.7
@@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ $ \fBmkdir \-p /home/user/testdir\fP          # In another terminal
 #define BUF_SIZE 256
 
 int
-main(int argc, char **argv)
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     int fd, ret, event_fd, mount_fd;
     ssize_t len, path_len;

Re: [patch] Change multiple occurrences of "char **argv" to "char *argv[]" to remain consistent with the vast majority of manual pages.

[Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)]

Hi Thomas,

On 6/24/21 7:55 PM, Thomas Voss wrote:
> sed -i s/int argc, char \*\*argv/int argc, char \*argv\[\]/ man*/*

Thanks for the script.  Patch applied (and added a signed-off-by line in
your name).

Cheers,

Alex

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/