From dfa0a7c7269f919d172f23d44a94929ee116daa4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pgoyette <pgoyette@NetBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 03:22:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update BUGS section to note the possibility of a truncated
 return value.

---
 lib/libc/net/linkaddr.3 | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libc/net/linkaddr.3 b/lib/libc/net/linkaddr.3
index d0f590dff2f5..7359e3cd968c 100644
--- a/lib/libc/net/linkaddr.3
+++ b/lib/libc/net/linkaddr.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: linkaddr.3,v 1.10 2003/08/07 16:43:11 agc Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: linkaddr.3,v 1.11 2016/12/07 03:22:14 pgoyette Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)linkaddr.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 7/28/93
 .\"
-.Dd July 28, 1993
+.Dd December 7, 2016
 .Dt LINK_ADDR 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ functions appeared in
 The returned values for
 .Fn link_ntoa
 reside in a static memory area.
+If the returned value would overflow this area,
+.Fn link_ntoa
+truncates the returned string.
+There is no provision for detecting a truncated return value.
 .Pp
 The function
 .Fn link_addr