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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen/getpwnam.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/getpwnam.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/getpwnam.3 b/lib/libc/gen/getpwnam.3 index f0e08480b13..9701d799242 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/getpwnam.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/getpwnam.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: getpwnam.3,v 1.7 2015/01/15 03:19:43 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: getpwnam.3,v 1.8 2015/10/27 04:41:18 guenther Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 15 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 27 2015 $ .Dt GETPWNAM 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -106,12 +106,9 @@ These file descriptors can be closed by a call to It is dangerous for long-running programs to keep the file descriptors open as the database will become out of date if it is updated while the program is running. -Furthermore, programs that run child processes should be careful to call -.Xr endpwent 3 -to close these descriptors before calling +However the file descriptors are automatically closed when .Xr execve 2 -or -.Xr system 3 . +is called. .Pp These routines have been written to .Dq shadow |