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| author | Wes Peters <wes@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-12-07 06:28:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Wes Peters <wes@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-12-07 06:28:58 +0000 |
| commit | 556f162ac01ccf2a3f501c0090aa6011fd723fdd (patch) | |
| tree | 13ab748ad6a3bd42035b82a51f7ead77dbbf376b /lib/libc/string/strerror.3 | |
| parent | a28920935a477041c8ff4320fd31f9d09b9e3606 (diff) | |
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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string/strerror.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/string/strerror.3 | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 b/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 index 037b138cad9e..2ed92d65de97 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 @@ -110,8 +110,15 @@ returns an error message string containing .Dq Li "Unknown error:\ " followed by the error number in decimal, while .Fn strerror_r -returns +leaves +.Fa strerrbuf +unchanged and returns .Er EINVAL . +Error numbers recognized by this implementation fall in +the range 0 <= +.Fa errnum +< +.Fa sys_nerr . .Pp If insufficient storage is provided in .Fa strerrbuf @@ -121,9 +128,11 @@ to contain the error string, .Fn strerror_r returns .Er ERANGE -and the contents of +and .Fa strerrbuf -are indeterminate. +will contain an error message that has been truncated and nul +terminated to fit the length specified by +.Fa buflen . .Pp The message strings can be accessed directly using the external array |