dlerror.3 query

dlerror.3 query

[Jonny Grant]

Hello

Quoting from:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlerror.3.html

"The dlerror() function returns a human-readable string describing the
most recent error that occurred from a call to one of the functions
in the dlopen API since the last call to dlerror().  The returned
string does not include a trailing newline."

My feeling is that this should say the string is null-terminated. Also I 
think it doesn't need to say it "does not include a trailing newline" - 
never seen that mentioned before, so probably no one would think it might.

Regards, Jonny
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Re: dlerror.3 query

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 12/05/2015 01:59 PM, Jonny Grant wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Quoting from:
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlerror.3.html
> 
> "The dlerror() function returns a human-readable string describing the
> most recent error that occurred from a call to one of the functions
> in the dlopen API since the last call to dlerror().  The returned
> string does not include a trailing newline."
> 
> My feeling is that this should say the string is null-terminated. Also I 
> think it doesn't need to say it "does not include a trailing newline" - 
> never seen that mentioned before, so probably no one would think it might.

I added the words "null-terminated" to the description, but I think
the mention that the string does not have a trailing newline does
no harm (and even POSIX has similar wording), so I left that in.

Cheers,

Michael


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