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authorRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-14 10:01:54 +0000
committerRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-14 10:01:54 +0000
commit753d686d34e90c2a4fe6afa14bd5f19d94f17699 (patch)
tree7afa9a221c2e61ee3e2cf3f8bc7417845980ab79 /lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
parente423aa38ba8e14f7be454efa093d6a9a931cc4c4 (diff)
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-rw-r--r--lib/libkvm/kvm_open.38
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3 b/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
index c22c49cd8872..b3b0441c2bc9 100644
--- a/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
+++ b/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
@@ -131,7 +131,9 @@ call.
.Pp
The
.Fn kvm_openfiles
-function provides BSD style error reporting.
+function provides
+.Bx
+style error reporting.
Here, error messages are not printed out by the library.
Instead, the application obtains the error message
corresponding to the most recent kvm library call using
@@ -174,7 +176,9 @@ function returns 0 on success and -1 on failure.
.Sh BUGS
There should not be two open calls. The ill-defined error semantics
of the Sun library and the desire to have a backward-compatible library
-for BSD left little choice.
+for
+.Bx
+left little choice.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr open 2 ,
.Xr kvm 3 ,