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author | alfred <alfred@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-07-16 01:18:13 +0000 |
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committer | alfred <alfred@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-07-16 01:18:13 +0000 |
commit | 4bc282eb72bf227a5706f710b20fed6d5dbabe98 (patch) | |
tree | 8ce4c83bc8f2fb37e8cd61b413306ef02ef10515 /lib/libc | |
parent | 1c9ffd247a8f327334a1c919423b707fe464ffac (diff) | |
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Clarify getfsstat(2) usage.
The getfsstat(2) function expects a buffer and a count, and returns a count.
The confusing part is that the count it takes is a byte count, while the
return value is a count of the number of structures it has filled out.
Spell this out.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/getfsstat.2 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getfsstat.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getfsstat.2 index 41d9904..3100d93 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/getfsstat.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/getfsstat.2 @@ -63,8 +63,13 @@ Fields that are undefined for a particular file system are set to -1. The buffer is filled with an array of .Fa fsstat structures, one for each mounted file system -up to the size specified by +up to the byte count specified by .Fa bufsize . +Note, the +.Fa bufsize +argument is the number of bytes that +.Fa buf +can hold, not the count of statfs structures it will hold. .Pp If .Fa buf |