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nl_langinfo.3: Enhance RETURN VALUE description 

Note some further cases where returned string may be
invalidated or overwritten.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-08-07 13:39:30 +02:00
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@ -131,11 +131,21 @@ data is not defined.
.PP
If \fIitem\fP is not valid, a pointer to an empty string is returned.
.PP
This pointer may point to static data that may be overwritten on the
next call to
.BR nl_langinfo ()
The pointer returned by these functions may point to static data that
may be overwritten, or the pointer itself may be invalidated,
by a subsequent call to
.BR nl_langinfo (),
.BR nl_langinfo_l (),
or
.BR setlocale (3).
The same statements apply to
.BR nl_langinfo_l ()
if the locale object referred to by
.I locale
is freed or modified by
.BR freelocale (3)
or
.BR newlocale (3).
.SH ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
.BR attributes (7).