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Document that getcwd() and realpath() are built on system calls that

have a different calling convention than the standard function...as seen
in kdump output.
ok deraadt@ schwarze@
OPENBSD_6_6
guenther 5 years ago
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@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $OpenBSD: realpath.3,v 1.21 2019/06/15 17:06:46 jmc Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: realpath.3,v 1.22 2019/06/29 21:21:27 guenther Exp $
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: June 15 2019 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: June 29 2019 $
.Dt REALPATH 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -147,3 +147,17 @@ The
.Fn realpath
function call first appeared in
.Bx 4.4 .
.Pp
In
.Ox 6.6 ,
it was reimplemented on top of a
.Fn __realpath
system call whose calling convention differs from the standard
function by requiring
.Ar resolved
to not be
.Dv NULL
and by returning an integer,
zero on success and \-1 with corresponding errno on failure.
This is visible in the output of
.Xr kdump 1 .

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