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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2006-03-17 08:22:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2006-03-17 08:22:50 +0000 |
| commit | 38295e8a75c5189fbb382c0bcb5720e47778e61a (patch) | |
| tree | a2366ee83835bd3d16dff50c62bd82559050cd3c | |
| parent | f9612b5eafbec0c562913c0707290a4c3ffc3969 (diff) | |
slight rewording based on debian bug report #357388 by Justin Pryzby
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_getenv.3 | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_getenv.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_getenv.3 index fab2e5e73..37a5979a7 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_getenv.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_getenv.3 @@ -18,10 +18,9 @@ will instead be made "available" by source code access only, and then as curlx_getenv(). .SH RETURN VALUE If successful, curl_getenv() returns a pointer to the value of the specified -environment. The memory it refers to is malloc()ed why the application must -free() this when the data has completed to serve its purpose. When -.I curl_getenv(3) -fails to find the specified name, it returns a null pointer. +environment. The memory it refers to is malloc()ed so the application must +free() this when the data is no longer needed. When \fIcurl_getenv(3)\fP fails +to find the specified name, it returns a null pointer. .SH NOTE Under unix operating systems, there isn't any point in returning an allocated memory, although other systems won't work properly if this isn't done. The |