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Diffstat (limited to 'man3/strerror.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/strerror.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man3/strerror.3 b/man3/strerror.3 index 37fc95d2a7..ac0c0deeaa 100644 --- a/man3/strerror.3 +++ b/man3/strerror.3 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ .\" 2005-12-13, mtk, Substantial rewrite of strerror_r() description .\" Addition of extra material on portability and standards. .\" -.TH STRERROR 3 2009-03-30 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH STRERROR 3 2012-04-22 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME strerror, strerror_r \- return string describing error number .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -133,9 +133,7 @@ or an "Unknown error nnn" message if the error number is unknown. The XSI-compliant .BR strerror_r () function returns 0 on success; -on error, \-1 is returned and -.I errno -is set to indicate the error. +on error, a (positive) error number is returned. .SH ERRORS .TP .B EINVAL |