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| author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-10-23 19:14:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-10-23 19:14:42 +0000 |
| commit | 0103780fd13fdcaf3db411c5465a23ac7ff4d3e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 90c3837c60446818cdc926bd7e50eb9aed6c891c | |
| parent | 664ebb0012b33dec6fc2d149fb641113c19d2f36 (diff) | |
Document that the string returned by strerror(3) contains a maximum of
NL_TEXTMAX characters.
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/string/strerror.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 b/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 index 72fb158388b..11bacd313e9 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: strerror.3,v 1.3 1999/05/23 14:11:03 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: strerror.3,v 1.4 2000/10/23 19:14:41 aaron Exp $ .\" .Dd June 29, 1991 .Dt STRERROR 3 @@ -49,7 +49,11 @@ The .Fn strerror function returns a pointer to the language-dependent error message -string affiliated with an error number. +string affiliated with the specified error number +.Fa errnum . +The returned string contains a maximum of +.Dv NL_TEXTMAX +characters, including the trailing NUL. .Pp The array pointed to is not to be modified by the program, but may be overwritten by subsequent calls to |