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| -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 |