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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
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Merging upstream version 6.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man3/err.3 b/man3/err.3
index 87f45a3..01a88ec 100644
--- a/man3/err.3
+++ b/man3/err.3
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
.\"
.\" 2011-09-10, mtk, Converted from mdoc to man macros
.\"
-.TH err 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH err 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
err, verr, errx, verrx, warn, vwarn, warnx, vwarnx \- formatted error messages
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -18,18 +18,18 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <err.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "[[noreturn]] void err(int " eval ", const char *" fmt ", ...);"
.BI "[[noreturn]] void errx(int " eval ", const char *" fmt ", ...);"
-.PP
+.P
.BI "void warn(const char *" fmt ", ...);"
.BI "void warnx(const char *" fmt ", ...);"
-.PP
+.P
.B #include <stdarg.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "[[noreturn]] void verr(int " eval ", const char *" fmt ", va_list " args );
.BI "[[noreturn]] void verrx(int " eval ", const char *" fmt ", va_list " args );
-.PP
+.P
.BI "void vwarn(const char *" fmt ", va_list " args );
.BI "void vwarnx(const char *" fmt ", va_list " args );
.fi
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ argument is not NULL, the
.BR printf (3)-like
formatted error message is output.
The output is terminated by a newline character.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR err (),
.BR verr (),
@@ -63,13 +63,13 @@ preceded by another colon and space unless the
.I fmt
argument is
NULL.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR errx ()
and
.BR warnx ()
functions do not append an error message.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR err (),
.BR verr (),
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ T{
.BR vwarnx ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale
.TE
-.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
BSD.
.SH HISTORY
@@ -112,7 +111,7 @@ BSD.
Display the current
.I errno
information string and exit:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
p = malloc(size);
@@ -123,9 +122,9 @@ if (fd == \-1)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "%s", file_name);
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
Display an error message and exit:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
if (tm.tm_hour < START_TIME)
@@ -133,9 +132,9 @@ if (tm.tm_hour < START_TIME)
start_time_string);
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
Warn of an error:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
fd = open(raw_device, O_RDONLY, 0);