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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-05-29 16:08:56 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-05-29 16:08:56 +0000
commita8d24b6330f4e9dea2af4dd4739ab2cefa8ce755 (patch)
treeba298f3eb43da551e2d92cd07fafea03ee072104 /lib/libc/gen/getbsize.3
parent71ac002b27dc0a8cf837935798598632b828b6a7 (diff)
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diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/getbsize.3 b/lib/libc/gen/getbsize.3
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+++ b/lib/libc/gen/getbsize.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: getbsize.3,v 1.3 1999/05/23 14:10:59 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: getbsize.3,v 1.4 1999/05/29 16:08:55 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -43,25 +43,28 @@
.Fn getbsize "int *headerlenp" "long *blocksizep"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Nm getbsize
+.Fn getbsize
function determines the user's preferred block size based on the value of the
-.Dq BLOCKSIZE
+.Ev BLOCKSIZE
environment variable; see
.Xr environ 7
for details on its use and format.
.Pp
The
-.Nm getbsize
-function returns a pointer to a null-terminated string describing
+.Fn getbsize
+function returns a pointer to a
+.Dv NULL Ns -terminated
+string describing
the block size, something like
-.Dq 1K-blocks .
+.Qq 1K-blocks .
The memory referenced by
.Fa headerlenp
is filled in with the length of the string (not including the
-terminating null).
+terminating
+.Dv NULL ) .
The memory referenced by
.Fa blocksizep
-is filled in with block size, in bytes.
+is filled in with the block size, in bytes.
.Pp
If the user's block size is unreasonable, a warning message is
written to standard error and the returned information reflects