From 54019304416837df08c2ee481ee0dc961073a2d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 10:21:01 +0000
Subject: Describe the `n' and `ps' arguments to mbrlen().

---
 lib/libc/locale/mbrlen.3 | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib/libc')

diff --git a/lib/libc/locale/mbrlen.3 b/lib/libc/locale/mbrlen.3
index d7d5b1c..d9d522f 100644
--- a/lib/libc/locale/mbrlen.3
+++ b/lib/libc/locale/mbrlen.3
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
-.Dd October 4, 2002
+.Dd November 11, 2002
 .Dt MBRLEN 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -40,7 +40,22 @@ The
 .Fn mbrlen
 function determines the the number of bytes constituting the
 multibyte character sequence pointed to by
-.Fa s .
+.Fa s ,
+examining at most
+.Fa n
+bytes.
+.Pp
+The
+.Ft mbstate_t
+argument,
+.Fa ps ,
+is used to keep track of the shift state.
+If it is
+.Dv NULL ,
+.Fn mbrlen
+uses an internal, static
+.Ft mbstate_t
+object.
 .Pp
 It is equivalent to:
 .Pp
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