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authortrhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2006-10-12 08:39:24 +0000
committertrhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2006-10-12 08:39:24 +0000
commit784213457bdde39ee310bd61b3533b88e64102a3 (patch)
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parent94d242076a54541b2b3069fc93ee2b16b2e82f86 (diff)
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Note that the value from getenv() should not be modified by applications.
PR: 60544 Reviewed by: ru
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.36
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3
index 4f7126b..2f2fabf 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.\" @(#)getenv.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd December 11, 1993
+.Dd October 12, 2006
.Dt GETENV 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ The
.Fn getenv
function obtains the current value of the environment variable,
.Fa name .
+The application should not modify the string pointed
+to by the
+.Fn getenv
+function.
.Pp
The
.Fn setenv
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