From 2c3307fb903f427be3d021c5780b75cac9af2ce8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:52:33 +0200 Subject: Merging upstream version 4.23.0. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/errno.3 | 34 +++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) (limited to 'upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/errno.3') diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/errno.3 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/errno.3 index f3ffee5d..72185eb0 100644 --- a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/errno.3 +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/errno.3 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ .\" 2006-02-09 Kurt Wall, mtk .\" Added non-POSIX errors .\" -.TH errno 3 2022-12-04 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH errno 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" .SH NAME errno \- number of last error .SH LIBRARY @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include -.\".PP +.\".P .\".BI "extern int " errno ; .fi .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ allowed to change The value of .I errno is never set to zero by any system call or library function. -.PP +.P For some system calls and library functions (e.g., .BR getpriority (2)), \-1 is a valid return on success. @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ if the call returns a status that indicates that an error may have occurred, checking to see if .I errno has a nonzero value. -.PP +.P .I errno is defined by the ISO C standard to be a modifiable lvalue of type @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ The header file defines symbolic names for each of the possible error numbers that may appear in .IR errno . -.PP +.P All the error names specified by POSIX.1 must have distinct values, with the exception of .B EAGAIN @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ and .BR EWOULDBLOCK , which may be the same. On Linux, these two have the same value on all architectures. -.PP +.P The error numbers that correspond to each symbolic name vary across UNIX systems, and even across different architectures on Linux. @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ and .BR strerror (3) functions can be used to convert these names to corresponding textual error messages. -.PP +.P On any particular Linux system, one can obtain a list of all symbolic error names and the corresponding error numbers using the @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ the corresponding error numbers using the command (part of the .I moreutils package): -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX $ \fBerrno \-l\fP @@ -114,13 +114,13 @@ EIO 5 Input/output error \&... .EE .in -.PP +.P The .BR errno (1) command can also be used to look up individual error numbers and names, and to search for errors using strings from the error description, as in the following examples: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX $ \fBerrno 2\fP @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ $ \fBerrno \-s permission\fP EACCES 13 Permission denied .EE .in -.\".PP +.\".P .\" POSIX.1 (2001 edition) lists the following symbolic error names. Of .\" these, \fBEDOM\fP and \fBERANGE\fP are in the ISO C standard. ISO C .\" Amendment 1 defines the additional error number \fBEILSEQ\fP for @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ but was not present in earlier POSIX.1 standards. .TP .I C99 The name is defined by C99. -.PP +.P Below is a list of the symbolic error names that are defined on Linux: .TP 16 .B E2BIG @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ Invalid cross-device link (POSIX.1-2001). Exchange full. .SH NOTES A common mistake is to do -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX if (somecall() == \-1) { @@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ if (somecall() == \-1) { } .EE .in -.PP +.P where .I errno no longer needs to have the value it had upon return from @@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ no longer needs to have the value it had upon return from If the value of .I errno should be preserved across a library call, it must be saved: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX if (somecall() == \-1) { @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ if (somecall() == \-1) { } .EE .in -.PP +.P Note that the POSIX threads APIs do .I not set @@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ Instead, on failure they return an error number as the function result. These error numbers have the same meanings as the error numbers returned in .I errno by other APIs. -.PP +.P On some ancient systems, .I was not present or did not declare -- cgit v1.2.3