docs/174023: [minor] getline(3) doc bug
Paul Procacci
pprocacci at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 20:40:00 UTC 2012
>Number: 174023
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [minor] getline(3) doc bug
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Nov 30 20:40:00 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Paul Procacci
>Release: 8.3-RELEASE-p4
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD nat.myhome 8.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3 #4: Fri Jun 29 14:59:00 CDT 2012 root at nat.myhome:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FIREWALL i386
>Description:
Really minor documentation bug in getline(3). (Major if you want to confuse someone - hehe).
In the "Return Values" section of the manpage it says the call to either the getline and getdelim functions return the value of the number of characters _written_.
Certainly this should have been _read_.
>How-To-Repeat:
man getline
>Fix:
diff -u lib/libc/stdio/getline.3.orig lib/libc/stdio/getline.3
--- lib/libc/stdio/getline.3.orig 2012-11-30 14:26:08.000000000 -0600
+++ lib/libc/stdio/getline.3 2012-11-30 14:26:16.000000000 -0600
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
.Fn getdelim
and
.Fn getline
-functions return the number of characters written, excluding the
+functions return the number of characters read, excluding the
terminating
.Dv NUL
character.
>Release-Note:
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