From 784213457bdde39ee310bd61b3533b88e64102a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: trhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:39:24 +0000
Subject: Note that the value from getenv() should not be modified by
 applications.

PR:		60544
Reviewed by:	ru
---
 lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3 | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib')

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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