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Diffstat (limited to 'man3/getline.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/getline.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man3/getline.3 b/man3/getline.3 index acf8be1bd..5681437ed 100644 --- a/man3/getline.3 +++ b/man3/getline.3 @@ -40,14 +40,16 @@ storing the address of the buffer containing the text into The buffer is null-terminated and includes the newline character, if one was found. -.\" FIXME what happens if *lineptr is NULL but *n isn't zero ? -.\" Answer: *n is ignored and a new buffer is allocated If .IR "*lineptr" is NULL, then .BR getline () -will allocate a buffer for storing the line, which should be freed -by the user program. +will allocate a buffer for storing the line, +which should be freed by the user program. +(The value in +.I *n +is ignored.) + Alternatively, before calling .BR getline (), .IR "*lineptr" @@ -65,6 +67,7 @@ updating and .IR "*n" as necessary. + In either case, on a successful call, .IR "*lineptr" and |