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| -rw-r--r-- | man2/syscall.2 | 7 |
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diff --git a/man2/syscall.2 b/man2/syscall.2 index 2fd94db539..382c40b22a 100644 --- a/man2/syscall.2 +++ b/man2/syscall.2 @@ -82,9 +82,8 @@ when invoking a system call that has no wrapper function in the C library. .BR syscall () saves CPU registers before making the system call, restores the registers upon return from the system call, -and stores any error code returned by the system call in -.BR errno (3) -if an error occurs. +and stores any error returned by the system call in +.BR errno (3). .PP Symbolic constants for system call numbers can be found in the header file .IR <sys/syscall.h> . @@ -92,7 +91,7 @@ Symbolic constants for system call numbers can be found in the header file The return value is defined by the system call being invoked. In general, a 0 return value indicates success. A \-1 return value indicates an error, -and an error code is stored in +and an error number is stored in .IR errno . .SH NOTES .BR syscall () |