Clarify in the RETURN VALUE section that it's necessary to free the buffer, since at least one person missed this up at the start of the DESCRIPTION. Signed-off-by: Elliott Hughes <enh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/getline.3 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/man3/getline.3 b/man3/getline.3 index 8b7357825..bad30956c 100644 --- a/man3/getline.3 +++ b/man3/getline.3 @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ condition). In the event of a failure, .I errno is set to indicate the error. +If +.I "*lineptr" +was set to NULL before the call, then the buffer should be freed by the +user program even on failure. .SH ERRORS .TP .B EINVAL -- 2.37.1.455.g008518b4e5-goog
