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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-09-05 23:03:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-09-05 23:03:47 +0200 |
| commit | 70ac1c4785fc1e158ab2349a962dba2526bf4fbc (patch) | |
| tree | bff270e2496dd284bccfc1271b43946f5d225224 /man3/asprintf.3 | |
| parent | 5423a6f86b2b920a5f3e8cf8d759b513050f2d33 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-70ac1c4785fc1e158ab2349a962dba2526bf4fbc.tar.gz | |
src.mk, All pages: Move man* to man/
The root of the repository is becoming a bit overpopulated and
unorganized, due to the recent addition of more mandirs, and more
informative and configuration files too. Let's create a specific
mandir <man/> that contains the mandirs <man[1-8]*>.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/asprintf.3')
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 72 deletions
diff --git a/man3/asprintf.3 b/man3/asprintf.3 deleted file mode 100644 index 820713eaa5..0000000000 --- a/man3/asprintf.3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,72 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (C) 2001 Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> -.\" -.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft -.\" -.\" Text fragments inspired by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>. -.\" -.TH ASPRINTF 3 2021-03-22 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" -.SH NAME -asprintf, vasprintf \- print to allocated string -.SH LIBRARY -Standard C library -.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */" -.B #include <stdio.h> -.PP -.BI "int asprintf(char **restrict " strp ", const char *restrict " fmt ", ...);" -.BI "int vasprintf(char **restrict " strp ", const char *restrict " fmt , -.BI " va_list " ap ); -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -The functions -.BR asprintf () -and -.BR vasprintf () -are analogs of -.BR sprintf (3) -and -.BR vsprintf (3), -except that they allocate a string large enough to hold the output -including the terminating null byte (\(aq\e0\(aq), -and return a pointer to it via the first argument. -This pointer should be passed to -.BR free (3) -to release the allocated storage when it is no longer needed. -.SH RETURN VALUE -When successful, these functions return the number of bytes printed, -just like -.BR sprintf (3). -If memory allocation wasn't possible, or some other error occurs, -these functions will return \-1, and the contents of -.I strp -are undefined. -.SH ATTRIBUTES -For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see -.BR attributes (7). -.ad l -.nh -.TS -allbox; -lbx lb lb -l l l. -Interface Attribute Value -T{ -.BR asprintf (), -.BR vasprintf () -T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale -.TE -.hy -.ad -.sp 1 -.SH STANDARDS -These functions are GNU extensions, not in C or POSIX. -They are also available under *BSD. -The FreeBSD implementation sets -.I strp -to NULL on error. -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR free (3), -.BR malloc (3), -.BR printf (3) |