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diff --git a/man3/basename.3 b/man3/basename.3 index 1032378e76..b400ac8132 100644 --- a/man3/basename.3 +++ b/man3/basename.3 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ .\" .TH DIRNAME 3 2000-12-14 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME -dirname, basename \- Parse pathname components +dirname, basename \- parse pathname components .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <libgen.h> @@ -83,17 +83,17 @@ and .BR basename () may modify the contents of .IR path , -so a copy should be passed when calling one of these functions. -(Because either function may return a pointer to some part of -.IR path , -the copy should not be freed until the pointer returned by -the function is no longer required.) -Furthermore, -.BR dirname () -and -.BR basename () -may return pointers to statically allocated memory +so it may be desirable to pass a copy when calling one of +these functions. +.PP +These functions may return pointers to statically allocated memory which may be overwritten by subsequent calls. +Alternatively, they may return a pointer to some part of +.IR path , +so that the string referred to by +.I path +should not be modified or freed until the pointer returned by +the function is no longer required. .PP The following list of examples (taken from SUSv2) shows the strings returned by |