On 12/05/2015 01:59 PM, Jonny Grant wrote: > Hello > > Quoting from: > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlerror.3.html > > "The dlerror() function returns a human-readable string describing the > most recent error that occurred from a call to one of the functions > in the dlopen API since the last call to dlerror(). The returned > string does not include a trailing newline." > > My feeling is that this should say the string is null-terminated. Also I > think it doesn't need to say it "does not include a trailing newline" - > never seen that mentioned before, so probably no one would think it might. I added the words "null-terminated" to the description, but I think the mention that the string does not have a trailing newline does no harm (and even POSIX has similar wording), so I left that in. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
