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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-11-11 15:10:53 -0500 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-11-11 15:10:53 -0500 |
| commit | cc7ffe866d0a7bc25b62ef5a68be5d5796c79de3 (patch) | |
| tree | c868b0bb39f15776f9d7f99b1ab9658c8e6f6ea1 /man3 | |
| parent | f961f9c1ab5cd3a12812da33967aaccdc76528d9 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-cc7ffe866d0a7bc25b62ef5a68be5d5796c79de3.tar.gz | |
inet_ntop.3: Rework text describing 'size' argument
(After a suggestion by Vegard Nossum.)
Also made a few other small rewordings to in the initial
paragraph.
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/inet_ntop.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man3/inet_ntop.3 b/man3/inet_ntop.3 index f87d10ed04..7de0ffafcd 100644 --- a/man3/inet_ntop.3 +++ b/man3/inet_ntop.3 @@ -36,11 +36,13 @@ This function converts the network address structure .I src in the .I af -address family into a character string, which is copied to a character buffer +address family into a character string. +The resulting string is copied to the buffer pointed to by .IR dst , -which is -.I size -bytes long. +which must be a non-NULL pointer. +The caller specifies the number of bytes available in this buffer in +the argument +.IR size . .PP .BR inet_ntop () extends the |