From e870225b6d5f15c4e055fbd3ac874a68d8216e74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kib <kib@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:41:02 +0000
Subject: Add standards section, improve wording, taking into account the
 handling of NULL and changed type in declaration.

Suggested by:	bde
MFC after:	2 weeks
---
 lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.3 | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib')

diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.3
index 371ee3b2..aee65f7 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.3
@@ -94,14 +94,11 @@ If an error occurs,
 .Fn realpath
 returns
 .Dv NULL ,
-and
-.Fa resolved_path
-contains the pathname which caused the problem.
-If
+and if
 .Fa resolved_path
-was
+is not
 .Dv NULL ,
-then information of the failed pathname component is lost.
+the array that it points to contains the pathname which caused the problem.
 .Sh ERRORS
 The function
 .Fn realpath
@@ -126,6 +123,11 @@ when given a relative
 .Fa pathname .
 .Sh "SEE ALSO"
 .Xr getcwd 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn realpath
+function conforms to
+.St -p1003.1-2001 .
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Fn realpath
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