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| author | Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> | 2026-05-17 14:29:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> | 2026-05-18 23:56:00 +0000 |
| commit | 94b7a335683abcbcd76e8b67d37e21271d81590c (patch) | |
| tree | a5b5883796c1d80f50b6b09e6fe935b1ed9e7722 | |
| parent | cd6bf930eafe850dc631feeaf8332832601f4225 (diff) | |
nlist.3: Add discouraged use notice
It is a relic from a.out days and is poorly specified. Although ELF
support was added to nlist, there are better ways to access ELF data.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57078
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/nlist.3 | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/nlist.3 b/lib/libc/gen/nlist.3 index d6029153de5a..9e2aa0d7eb0f 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/nlist.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/nlist.3 @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn nlist +function is provided for compatibility with legacy applications. +Its use is discouraged. +The +.Fn nlist function retrieves name list entries from the .Xr elf 5 |