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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/dirname.3 | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/dirname.3 b/lib/libc/gen/dirname.3 index 05d57025dff..4f3d7754562 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/dirname.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/dirname.3 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF .\" ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: dirname.3,v 1.7 1999/06/04 01:30:10 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: dirname.3,v 1.8 1999/07/17 09:32:30 downsj Exp $ .\" .Dd August 17, 1997 .Dt DIRNAME 3 @@ -79,6 +79,13 @@ The path component to be returned was larger than .Fn dirname returns a pointer to internal static storage space that will be overwritten by subsequent calls (each function has its own separate storage). +.Pp +Other vendor implementations of +.Fn dirname +may modify the contents of the string passed to +.Fn dirname ; +this should be taken into account when writing code which calls this function +if portability is desired. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr basename 1 , .Xr dirname 1 , |