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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-12-20 22:30:11 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-12-20 22:30:11 +0000
commitf9d0a9e66758330f2a8591e679b6ff93bb7d526a (patch)
tree17ce3bc878bb0d7b3a12465f572feef33ed18055
parent6892eb56f228cc76d4ab061637bc4e42a640e7c6 (diff)
Get rid of a bogus -32 that came about from misreading the ISC original
Mention what happens when a length parameter is zero Talk about space for trailing NUL byte
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.310
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 b/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3
index 2dfe60ad59e..9085ff69711 100644
--- a/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3
+++ b/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: getnameinfo.3,v 1.31 2004/12/20 22:20:43 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: getnameinfo.3,v 1.32 2004/12/20 22:30:10 millert Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 2004 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
.\" Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 Internet Software Consortium.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ are stored in
.Fa host
and
.Fa serv
-which have size parameters
+which have length parameters
.Fa hostlen
and
.Fa servlen .
@@ -71,10 +71,12 @@ and
the maximum value for
.Fa servlen
is
-.Dv NI_MAXSERV
-- 32,
+.Dv NI_MAXSERV ,
as defined by
.Aq Pa netdb.h .
+If a length parameter is zero, no string will be stored.
+Otherwise, enough space must be provided to store the
+host name or service string plus a byte for the NUL terminator.
.Pp
The
.Fa flags