clarify that "result" is undefined in case of failure (we had reports of developers...

diff --git a/doc/man/man3/ldap_result.3 b/doc/man/man3/ldap_result.3
index 34756156d317ea309a8e86e01675e750f8f1c06b..ebfb5f2f2703bc8ef58935c7194ce36d8b7c53e5 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/man3/ldap_result.3
+++ b/doc/man/man3/ldap_result.3
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ all references, all extended partial responses, and the final search
 result have been received.
 .LP
 Upon success, the type of the result received is returned and the
-\fIresult\fP parameter will contain the result of the operation.  This
+\fIresult\fP parameter will contain the result of the operation;
+otherwise, the \fIresult\fP parameter is undefined.  This
 result should be passed to the LDAP parsing routines,
 .BR ldap_first_message (3)
 and friends, for interpretation.