Add a hint which buffer size is needed for strerror_r() and strerror_l(). Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> --- man3/strerror.3 | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/man3/strerror.3 b/man3/strerror.3 index ec758fb..511a4a3 100644 --- a/man3/strerror.3 +++ b/man3/strerror.3 @@ -256,6 +256,15 @@ to .B EINVAL if the error number is unknown. C99 and POSIX.1-2008 require the return value to be non-NULL. +.SH NOTES +The GNU C Library, version 2.25 uses a buffer of 1024 characters for +.BR strerror (). +This buffer size therefore should be suffcient to avoid an +.B ERANGE +error in +.BR strerror_r () +and +.BR strerror_l (). .SH SEE ALSO .BR err (3), .BR errno (3), -- 2.1.4 -- 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
