Re: [PATCH] getmntent.3: clarify that endmntent should be used rather than fclose

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Hello Elliot,

On 10/3/18 10:00 PM, enh wrote:
> This doesn't actually matter on any C library I know of --- they all
> just do a NULL check and forward to fclose(3). (The actual mistake I
> saw was someone not realizing that they had to call *anything*.)

Thanks! Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  man3/getmntent.3 | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man3/getmntent.3 b/man3/getmntent.3
> index 8f3f2686a..6ccc26b5f 100644
> --- a/man3/getmntent.3
> +++ b/man3/getmntent.3
> @@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ required and can take the same values as the
>  .I mode
>  argument of
>  .BR fopen (3).
> +The returned stream should be closed using
> +.BR endmntent ()
> +rather than
> +.BR fclose (3).
>  .PP
>  The
>  .BR getmntent ()
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/



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