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Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 2017 00:43:15 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Ngie Cooper <ngie@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r319842 - head/lib/libc/gen
Message-ID:  <201706120043.v5C0hFnx076949@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: ngie
Date: Mon Jun 12 00:43:14 2017
New Revision: 319842
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/319842

Log:
  getbsize(3): clarify that underflow/overflow warnings in regard to $BLOCKSIZE
  gets output via warnx(3)
  
  This helps set expectations for how one might deal with those messages, i.e.,
  mute output from /dev/stderr today, since that's where vwarn(3) outputs messages
  to today.
  
  MFC after:	1 month

Modified:
  head/lib/libc/gen/getbsize.3

Modified: head/lib/libc/gen/getbsize.3
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libc/gen/getbsize.3	Mon Jun 12 00:21:55 2017	(r319841)
+++ head/lib/libc/gen/getbsize.3	Mon Jun 12 00:43:14 2017	(r319842)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)getbsize.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd November 16, 2012
+.Dd June 11, 2017
 .Dt GETBSIZE 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ Sizes less than 512 bytes are rounded up to 512 bytes,
 greater than 1 GB are rounded down to 1 GB.
 In each case
 .Fn getbsize
-produces a warning message.
+produces a warning message via
+.Xr warnx 3 .
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn getbsize



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