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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-09-07 11:19:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-09-07 11:21:06 +0200 |
| commit | 7497e9d8c898ed6cf60d500d08738868667f643b (patch) | |
| tree | d679bd5278483b5665e401032a7bb2d6c18253c8 | |
| parent | f9a5e579250739a29553969227133bcb61fdbfbc (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-7497e9d8c898ed6cf60d500d08738868667f643b.tar.gz | |
errno.3: Note that the pthreads APIs do not set errno
Reported-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/errno.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man3/errno.3 b/man3/errno.3 index 307e486cf4..90edb8e665 100644 --- a/man3/errno.3 +++ b/man3/errno.3 @@ -631,6 +631,16 @@ if (somecall() == \-1) { .EE .in .PP +Note that the POSIX threads APIs do +.I not +set +.I errno +on error. +Instead, on failure they return an error number as the function result. +These error numbers have the same meanings as the error numbers returned in +.I errno +by other APIs. +.PP On some ancient systems, .I <errno.h> was not present or did not declare |