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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-04-08 10:28:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-04-10 09:41:55 +0200 |
| commit | ed09120acd9027de514d8baf004f8604f7d7452b (patch) | |
| tree | 984b03cdcdd86595ce09a9019bd479200b978969 /man3 | |
| parent | 96ef1406349cf02615b3e34a04b3a3860c13f4fa (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-ed09120acd9027de514d8baf004f8604f7d7452b.tar.gz | |
accept.2, epoll_create.2, inotify_add_watch.2, open.2, open_by_handle_at.2, pidfd_open.2, dirfd.3, posix_openpt.3, shm_open.3: Fix clumsy wording around "nonnegative file descriptors"
Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/dirfd.3 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/posix_openpt.3 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/shm_open.3 | 2 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man3/dirfd.3 b/man3/dirfd.3 index e75fd272ae..7df36ae4bb 100644 --- a/man3/dirfd.3 +++ b/man3/dirfd.3 @@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ It will be automatically closed when .BR closedir (3) is called. .SH RETURN VALUE -On success, a nonnegative file descriptor is returned. +On success, +.BR dirfd () +returns a file descriptor (a nonnegative integer). On error, \-1 is returned, and .I errno is set to indicate the cause of the error. diff --git a/man3/posix_openpt.3 b/man3/posix_openpt.3 index 8b5176bcdd..7eb7acaff1 100644 --- a/man3/posix_openpt.3 +++ b/man3/posix_openpt.3 @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Do not make this device the controlling terminal for the process. .SH RETURN VALUE On success, .BR posix_openpt () -returns a nonnegative file descriptor which is the lowest +returns a file descriptor (a nonnegative integer) which is the lowest numbered unused file descriptor. On failure, \-1 is returned, and .I errno diff --git a/man3/shm_open.3 b/man3/shm_open.3 index 675d44df96..2be0209f46 100644 --- a/man3/shm_open.3 +++ b/man3/shm_open.3 @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ was specified, in which case a new, distinct object is created). .SH RETURN VALUE On success, .BR shm_open () -returns a nonnegative file descriptor. +returns a file descriptor (a nonnegative integer). On failure, .BR shm_open () returns \-1. |