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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2015-07-16 16:25:34 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2015-08-08 17:35:44 +0200
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dlerror.3: Note that the returned message may be in a statically allocated buffer
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man3/dlerror.3 b/man3/dlerror.3
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--- a/man3/dlerror.3
+++ b/man3/dlerror.3
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ is present in glibc 2.0 and later.
.SH CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001.
.SH NOTES
+The message returned by
+.BR dlerror ()
+may reside in a staticially allocated buffer that is
+overwritten by subsequent
+.BR dlerror ()
+calls.
.\" .LP
.\" The string returned by
.\" .BR dlerror ()