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@@ -964,15 +964,15 @@ and provides a superset of the features of
It is documented separately, in
.BR openat2 (2).
.SH RETURN VALUE
+On success,
.BR open (),
.BR openat (),
and
.BR creat ()
-return the new file descriptor (a nonnegative integer),
-or \-1 if an error occurred
-(in which case,
+return the new file descriptor (a nonnegative integer).
+On error, \-1 is returned and
.I errno
-is set appropriately).
+is set to indicate the error.
.SH ERRORS
.BR open (),
.BR openat (),