From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: dlerror.3 query Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:00:38 +0100 Message-ID: <567EB9A6.5090606@gmail.com> References: <5662DFBD.1090009@jguk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5662DFBD.1090009-hus3n9K41k0@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jonny Grant Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org 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-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html