Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761397AbXEQX5A (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 19:57:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756135AbXEQX4x (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 19:56:53 -0400 Received: from alpha.lp.pl ([194.1.144.4]:49056 "EHLO alpha.polcom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755450AbXEQX4w (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 19:56:52 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1495 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 19:56:52 EDT Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 01:31:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Grzegorz Kulewski To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linux Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Further update of the i386 boot documentation In-Reply-To: <464CE38B.8010802@zytor.com> Message-ID: References: <200705172250.l4HMol8f004870@tazenda.hos.anvin.org> <464CE105.7030808@goop.org> <464CE38B.8010802@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 873 Lines: 29 On Thu, 17 May 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> +Field name: kernel_version >>> +Type: read >>> +Offset/size: 0x20e/2 >>> +Protocol: 2.00+ >>> + >>> + If set to a nonzero value, contains a pointer to a null-terminated >>> >> >> "nil-terminated"? "\0-terminated"? > > Uh? That seems more than a little silly. Yes, I guess formally > speaking we're talking about "NUL-terminated", but the term > "null-terminated" has over 800,000 hits on Google -- 10 times as many as > "NUL-terminated" -- and is hardly an ambiguous term ("NUL-terminated" is > ugly, and "zero-terminated" is ambiguous.) ASCIIZ? Thanks, Grzegorz Kulewski - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/