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| author | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-12-16 04:39:23 +0000 |
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| committer | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-12-16 04:39:23 +0000 |
| commit | 5315be15ac1169e2dc9312a40484408700cf349a (patch) | |
| tree | f95e810c5ed5fdc47190d697ed8850223f36ec3b /lib | |
| parent | 0be4cef38efb9e28cea426387a805c84f1d81043 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-5315be15ac1169e2dc9312a40484408700cf349a.zip FreeBSD-src-5315be15ac1169e2dc9312a40484408700cf349a.tar.gz | |
Add reminder to return memory allocated by this call.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/setmode.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/setmode.3 b/lib/libc/gen/setmode.3 index 4c85b30..bc38fd3 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/setmode.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/setmode.3 @@ -81,10 +81,19 @@ is to modify future file modes correctly. .Pp If the mode passed to .Fn setmode -is invalid, +is invalid or if memory cannot be allocated for the return value, .Fn setmode returns .Dv NULL . +.Pp +The value returned from +.Fn setmode +is obtained from +.Fn malloc +and should be returned to the system with +.Fn free +when the program is done with it, generally after a call to +.Fn getmode . .Sh ERRORS The .Fn setmode |
