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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2000-08-08 22:43:16 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2000-08-08 22:43:16 +0000
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2000-08-08 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> * locale/linereader.c (get_string): Don't print an error is a string contains an unknown character.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/manual/startup.texi b/manual/startup.texi
index 8f4fd23..50649c9 100644
--- a/manual/startup.texi
+++ b/manual/startup.texi
@@ -340,7 +340,8 @@ given as the parameter @var{string} is put into the environment. If the
user should change the string after the @code{putenv} call this will
reflect in automatically in the environment. This also requires that
@var{string} is no automatic variable which scope is left before the
-variable is removed from the environment.
+variable is removed from the environment. The same applies of course to
+dynamically allocated variables which are freed later.
This function is part of the extended Unix interface. Since it was also
available in old SVID libraries you should define either
@@ -590,7 +591,7 @@ the privilege to do, such as doing I/O. Programmers don't normally
need to be concerned with system calls because there are functions in
the GNU C library to do virtually everything that system calls do.
These functions work by making system calls themselves. For example,
-there is a system call that changes the permissions of a file, but
+there is a system call that changes the permissions of a file, but
you don't need to know about it because you can just use the GNU C
library's @code{chmod} function.
@@ -660,7 +661,7 @@ int rc;
rc = syscall(SYS_chmod, "/etc/passwd", 0444);
-if (rc == -1)
+if (rc == -1)
fprintf(stderr, "chmod failed, errno = %d\n", errno);
@end smallexample