dlerror.3 query
Hello
Quoting from:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlerror.3.html
"The dlerror() function returns a human-readable string describing the most recent error that occurred from a call to one of the functions in the dlopen API since the last call to dlerror(). The returned string does not include a trailing newline."
My feeling is that this should say the string is null-terminated. Also I think it doesn't need to say it "does not include a trailing newline" - never seen that mentioned before, so probably no one would think it might.
Regards, Jonny
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Quoted 5 lines · Jonny Grant
Hello
Quoting from:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlerror.3.html
Quoted 8 lines
"The
dlerror()function returns a human-readable string describing the most recent error that occurred from a call to one of the functions in the dlopen API since the last call todlerror(). The returned string does not include a trailing newline."My feeling is that this should say the string is null-terminated. Also I think it doesn't need to say it "does not include a trailing newline" - never seen that mentioned before, so probably no one would think it might.
I added the words "null-terminated" to the description, but I think the mention that the string does not have a trailing newline does no harm (and even POSIX has similar wording), so I left that in.
Cheers,
Michael
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