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Originally Posted by Corona688

And they did that by using the wrong quotation mark?

(I will assume the question is not rhetorical.)
No; bakunin is pointing out that perhaps another language might use something that looks like a single quote for something else in their language entirely and was referring to letters instead of single quotes as an example.
As I am lazy, I use the letter u to refer to 'micro' as in uF which is totally wrong but convenient, where as it should be μ for μF .

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sockatmark

SOCKATMARK(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					     SOCKATMARK(3)

NAME

     sockatmark -- determine whether the read pointer is at the OOB mark

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/socket.h>

     int
     sockatmark(int s);

DESCRIPTION

     To find out if the read pointer is currently pointing at the mark in the data stream, the sockatmark() function is provided.  If sockatmark()
     returns 1, the next read will return data after the mark.	Otherwise (assuming out of band data has arrived), the next read will provide data
     sent by the client prior to transmission of the out of band signal.  The routine used in the remote login process to flush output on receipt
     of an interrupt or quit signal is shown below.  It reads the normal data up to the mark (to discard it), then reads the out-of-band byte.

	   #include <sys/socket.h>
	   ...
	   oob()
	   {
		   int out = FWRITE, mark;
		   char waste[BUFSIZ];

		   /* flush local terminal output */
		   ioctl(1, TIOCFLUSH, (char *)&out);
		   for (;;) {
			   if ((mark = sockatmark(rem)) < 0) {
				   perror("sockatmark");
				   break;
			   }
			   if (mark)
				   break;
			   (void) read(rem, waste, sizeof (waste));
		   }
		   if (recv(rem, &mark, 1, MSG_OOB) < 0) {
			   perror("recv");
			   ...
		   }
		   ...
	   }

RETURN VALUES

     Upon successful completion, the sockatmark() function returns the value 1 if the read pointer is pointing at the OOB mark, 0 if it is not.
     Otherwise, the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

     The sockatmark() call fails if:

     [EBADF]		The s argument is not a valid descriptor.

     [ENOTTY]		The s argument is a descriptor for a file, not a socket.

SEE ALSO

     recv(2), send(2)

HISTORY

     The sockatmark() function was introduced by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''), to standardize the historical SIOCATMARK ioctl(2).  The
     ENOTTY error instead of the usual ENOTSOCK is to match the historical behavior of SIOCATMARK.

BSD
								 October 13, 2002							       BSD

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