Nice() in Sys V.4

[Chris Torek]

In article <1991Mar21.141753.28726 at nncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
wescott at Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott) writes:
[quoting proc(4) from some SVR4 system]
>	The argument p is a generic pointer whose  type  depends  on
>	the  specific  ioctl code.  Where not specifically mentioned
>	below, its value should be  zero.

Whoop!  Whoop!  Confusion alert!

Does this mean `the argument p should be a null-pointer-to-char', or
does it mean `the argument p should be a pointer-to-char holding the
address of an int whose value is zero', or does it mean something else?

It is impossible for p to have the `value ... zero' because p is a
pointer---Pointers Are Not Integers---but this means we must guess at
what was really meant.
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