Bug 24789

Summary: strsep man page return value incorrect
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <redhatbugzilla>
Component: man-pagesAssignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Need Real Name 2001-01-24 00:37:35 UTC 
In the manpage for strsep, it states:

The strsep() function returns a pointer to the token,  or NULL if delim is
not found in stringp.


It seems that if the delimeter is not found, that it returns a pointer to
stringp, not NULL, which would make much more sense for parsing delimited
text.
Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-01-30 17:55:01 UTC 
The info page has better (and more correct) info, still pondering what to put in
the man pages.
Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-02-14 05:29:53 UTC 
Fixed in man-pages-1.34-2, coming soon to a rawhide near you.