From 23c38e4e7c8ac5370802f5158ea3085e8d58081a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: des <des@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:48:04 +0000
Subject: sbuf_new(9) now returns a struct sbuf * instead of an int.  If the
 caller does not provide a struct sbuf, sbuf_new(9) will allocate one and
 return a pointer to it.

---
 share/man/man9/sbuf.9 | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'share')

diff --git a/share/man/man9/sbuf.9 b/share/man/man9/sbuf.9
index 220bec6..6c5b112 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/sbuf.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/sbuf.9
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Fd #include <sys/types.h>
 .Fd #include <sys/sbuf.h>
-.Ft int
+.Ft struct sbuf *s
 .Fn sbuf_new "struct sbuf *s" "char *buf" "int length" "int flags"
 .Ft void
 .Fn sbuf_clear "struct sbuf *s"
@@ -85,6 +85,13 @@ The
 function initializes the
 .Fa sbuf
 pointed to by its first argument.
+If that pointer is
+.Dv NULL ,
+.Fn sbuf_new
+allocates a
+.Fa struct sbuf
+using
+.Xr malloc 9 .
 The
 .Fa buf
 argument is a pointer to a buffer in which to store the actual string;
@@ -213,7 +220,10 @@ or it is reinitialized to a sufficiently short string using
 .Fn sbuf_cpy .
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 .Fn sbuf_new
-returns \-1 if it failed to allocate a storage buffer, and zero
+returns
+.Dv NULL
+if it failed to allocate a storage buffer, and a pointer to the new
+.Fa sbuf
 otherwise.
 .Pp
 .Fn sbuf_setpos
-- 
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