From 4e2e77a0f2f3ce1f209821176b0547dc4be96ffe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ken <ken@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 06:36:02 +0000
Subject: Clarify what getdevs() expects as input.

Prompted by:	grog
---
 lib/libdevstat/devstat.3 | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib/libdevstat')

diff --git a/lib/libdevstat/devstat.3 b/lib/libdevstat/devstat.3
index 4c3c9de..69a4d74 100644
--- a/lib/libdevstat/devstat.3
+++ b/lib/libdevstat/devstat.3
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Kenneth D. Merry.
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Kenneth D. Merry.
 .\" All rights reserved.
 .\"
 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -149,7 +149,14 @@ expects the
 .Va statinfo
 structure to be allocated, and it also expects the
 .Va dinfo
-subelement to be allocated ahead of time.  The
+subelement to be allocated and zeroed prior to the first invocation of
+.Fn getdevs .
+The
+.Va dinfo
+subelement is used to store state between calls, and should not be modified
+after the first call to
+.Fn getdevs .
+The
 .Va dinfo
 subelement contains the following elements:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
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