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@@ -514,6 +514,9 @@ is in UTF-8.
Write the JSON representation of *root* to the stream *output*.
*flags* is described above. Returns 0 on success and -1 on error.
+ If an error occurs, something may have already been written to
+ *output*. In this case, the output is undefined and most likely not
+ valid JSON.
.. cfunction:: int json_dump_file(const json_t *json, const char *path, unsigned long flags)