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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-03-25 13:15:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-03-25 13:15:27 +0000 |
| commit | d7c081a94fd9f9c98f8343afa347c8b4b5a955e7 (patch) | |
| tree | ae3e209ffa0c4f7ef7b9c825259c10bc1a7cc18a /man3/basename.3 | |
| parent | f6a4055f3a7d603b05b1f8563d58c1f3815a9a55 (diff) | |
Add text to clarify that the pointer returned by these
functions may be into some part of 'path'.
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/basename.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/basename.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man3/basename.3 b/man3/basename.3 index 2deb5cc3..1032378e 100644 --- a/man3/basename.3 +++ b/man3/basename.3 @@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ and .BR basename () may modify the contents of .IR path , -so copies should be passed to these functions. +so a copy should be passed when calling one of these functions. +(Because either function may return a pointer to some part of +.IR path , +the copy should not be freed until the pointer returned by +the function is no longer required.) Furthermore, .BR dirname () and |