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authorThomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@debian.org>2005-12-04 20:03:34 -0800
committerBryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org>2017-02-20 00:05:33 -0800
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Import Debian changes 3a2-3debian/3a2-3
slib (3a2-3) unstable; urgency=low * Brought all source files up-to-date with upstream CVS. Repeat changes from version 3a2-1 in Makefile.
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@@ -46,5 +46,10 @@ which case it defaults to the value returned by
a temporary file. @code{system->line} calls @code{system} with @var{command} as argument,
redirecting stdout to file @var{tmp}. @code{system->line} returns a string containing the
first line of output from @var{tmp}.
+
+@code{system->line} is intended to be a portable method for getting one-line results
+from programs like @code{pwd}, @code{whoami}, @code{hostname},
+@code{which}, @code{identify}, and @code{cksum}. Its behavior when
+called with programs which generate lots of output is unspecified.
@end defun