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| author | Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-10-12 14:52:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-10-12 14:52:52 +0000 |
| commit | 4bf94cc1f736deed7f10c72724313d19b2f1263f (patch) | |
| tree | 9c6128e736fcd0bcd1f58670097142984d83f9b5 | |
| parent | 4dfcafe73a99528547df2cb19346cc4a2f51a627 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/string/strerror.3 | 21 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 b/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 index c8c9a20ff353..9f486ed25b51 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ .\" @(#)strerror.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 19, 2002 +.Dd October 12, 2004 .Dt STRERROR 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -102,18 +102,17 @@ a colon and space .Pq Dq Li ":\ " ; otherwise, only the error message string is printed. .Pp -If -.Fa errnum -is not a recognized error number, -.Fn strerror -returns an error message string containing +If the error number is not recognized, these functions return an error message +string containing .Dq Li "Unknown error:\ " -followed by the error number in decimal, while +followed by the error number in decimal. +The +.Fn strerror +and .Fn strerror_r -leaves -.Fa strerrbuf -unchanged and returns -.Er EINVAL . +functions return +.Er EINVAL +as a warning. Error numbers recognized by this implementation fall in the range 0 < .Fa errnum |