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| author | Elliot Hughes <enh@google.com> | 2018-10-03 13:00:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2018-11-05 16:52:40 +0100 |
| commit | 7c2c86efb7b922c768b9260b184c2893f72f3dfc (patch) | |
| tree | e3a60fbd7849e57acb98f1d07238f3be10b3fcb1 | |
| parent | c36a6bedf681884a3278e1b9f46108e22e5f238c (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-7c2c86efb7b922c768b9260b184c2893f72f3dfc.tar.gz | |
getmntent.3: Clarify that endmntent() should be used rather than fclose()
This doesn't actually matter on any C library I know of --- they
all just do a NULL check and forward to fclose(3). (The actual
mistake I saw was someone not realizing that they had to call
*anything*.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/getmntent.3 | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man3/getmntent.3 b/man3/getmntent.3 index 8f3f2686ac..6ccc26b5f9 100644 --- a/man3/getmntent.3 +++ b/man3/getmntent.3 @@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ required and can take the same values as the .I mode argument of .BR fopen (3). +The returned stream should be closed using +.BR endmntent () +rather than +.BR fclose (3). .PP The .BR getmntent () |