From: Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:05:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: docs: note that udev doesn't deal with binary attribute values (#11383)
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docs: note that udev doesn't deal with binary attribute values (#11383)

Related to #5329.
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diff --git a/man/udev_device_has_tag.xml b/man/udev_device_has_tag.xml
index f34ae9ed370..e27b7702157 100644
--- a/man/udev_device_has_tag.xml
+++ b/man/udev_device_has_tag.xml
@@ -109,12 +109,19 @@
     <function>udev_device_get_property_value()</function> and
     <function>udev_device_get_sysattr_value()</function> return a
     pointer to a constant string of the requested value. On error,
-    <constant>NULL</constant> is returned.</para>
+    <constant>NULL</constant> is returned. Attributes that may
+    contain <constant>NUL</constant> bytes should not be retrieved
+    with <function>udev_device_get_sysattr_value()</function>;
+    instead, read them directly from the files within the device's
+    <property>syspath</property>.</para>
 
     <para>On success,
     <function>udev_device_set_sysattr_value()</function> returns
     an integer greater than, or equal to, <constant>0</constant>.
-    On failure, a negative error code is returned.</para>
+    On failure, a negative error code is returned. Values that
+    contain <constant>NUL</constant> bytes should not be set with
+    this function; instead, write them directly to the files within
+    the device's <property>syspath</property>.</para>
 
     <para>On success, <function>udev_device_has_tag()</function>
     returns <constant>1</constant> or <constant>0</constant>,