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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-06-29 07:12:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-06-29 07:12:17 +0000 |
| commit | 853a397f043aa4d689509f7821ce5f55d65a32d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a58eb3282f4a7c218bff8c5ac37c87921bf531c | |
| parent | 5412da6f708b47f81d343a07af3d718ff72314ab (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-853a397f043aa4d689509f7821ce5f55d65a32d3.tar.gz | |
Clarify discussion of return values.
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/getutent.3 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man3/getutent.3 b/man3/getutent.3 index 5df2978120..46393db403 100644 --- a/man3/getutent.3 +++ b/man3/getutent.3 @@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ will append the new entry to the end of the file. .BR getutid (), and .BR getutline () -return a pointer to a \fIstruct utmp\fP on success, and NULL on failure. +return a pointer to a \fIstruct utmp\fP on success, +and NULL on failure (which includes the "record not found" case). This \fIstruct utmp\fP is allocated in static storage, and may be overwritten by subsequent calls. |