On 02/01/2017 07:53 AM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > Add a hint which buffer size is needed for > strerror_r() and strerror_l(). Thanks, Heinrich.I applied the patch, but removed mention of "version 2.25", since this buffer size goes *way* back (at least as far back 2.0.6). Cheers, Michael > 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), > -- 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
