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-rw-r--r--man3/posix_memalign.34
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man3/posix_memalign.3 b/man3/posix_memalign.3
index b4e3556629..84b24303e1 100644
--- a/man3/posix_memalign.3
+++ b/man3/posix_memalign.3
@@ -144,7 +144,9 @@ For all of these functions, the memory is not zeroed.
.BR valloc (),
and
.BR pvalloc ()
-return a pointer to the allocated memory, or NULL if the request fails.
+return a pointer to the allocated memory on success.
+On error, NULL is returned, and \fIerrno\fP is set
+to indicate the cause of the error.
.PP
.BR posix_memalign ()
returns zero on success, or one of the error values listed in the