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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/mbsrtowcs.3 b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/mbsrtowcs.3 index e613a140..b825b7f2 100644 --- a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/mbsrtowcs.3 +++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/mbsrtowcs.3 @@ -9,31 +9,31 @@ .\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html .\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999 .\" -.TH mbsrtowcs 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH mbsrtowcs 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.8" .SH NAME -mbsrtowcs \- convert a multibyte string to a wide-character string +mbsrtowcs \- convert a multibyte string to a wide-character string (restartable) .SH LIBRARY Standard C library .RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <wchar.h> -.PP -.BI "size_t mbsrtowcs(wchar_t " dest "[restrict ." len "], const char **restrict " src , -.BI " size_t " len ", mbstate_t *restrict " ps ); +.P +.BI "size_t mbsrtowcs(wchar_t " dest "[restrict ." dsize ], +.BI " const char **restrict " src , +.BI " size_t " dsize ", mbstate_t *restrict " ps ); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION If .I dest -is not NULL, the -.BR mbsrtowcs () -function converts the +is not NULL, +convert the multibyte string .I *src to a wide-character string starting at .IR dest . At most -.I len +.I dsize wide characters are written to .IR dest . The shift state @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ and is set to .BR EILSEQ . .IP \[bu] -.I len +.I dsize non-L\[aq]\e0\[aq] wide characters have been stored at .IR dest . In this case, @@ -86,16 +86,16 @@ is set to NULL, and the number of wide characters written to .IR dest , excluding the terminating null wide character, is returned. -.PP +.P If .I dest is NULL, -.I len +.I dsize is ignored, and the conversion proceeds as above, except that the converted wide characters are not written out to memory, and that no length limit exists. -.PP +.P In both of the above cases, if .I ps @@ -103,16 +103,23 @@ is NULL, a static anonymous state known only to the .BR mbsrtowcs () function is used instead. -.PP +.P +In order to avoid the case 2 above, the programmer should make sure +.I dsize +is +greater than or equal to +.IR "mbsrtowcs(NULL,src,0,ps)+1" . +.P The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least -.I len +.I dsize wide characters at .IR dest . +.P +This function is a restartable version of +.BR mbstowcs (3). .SH RETURN VALUE -The -.BR mbsrtowcs () -function returns the number of wide characters that make +The number of wide characters that make up the converted part of the wide-character string, not including the terminating null wide character. If an invalid multibyte sequence was @@ -140,7 +147,6 @@ T} Thread safety T{ MT-Unsafe race:mbsrtowcs/!ps T} .TE -.sp 1 .SH STANDARDS C11, POSIX.1-2008. .SH HISTORY @@ -152,7 +158,7 @@ depends on the .B LC_CTYPE category of the current locale. -.PP +.P Passing NULL as .I ps is not multithread safe. |