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Submitted by: Arne Henrik Juul <arnej@imf.unit.no>
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rnordier 1998-04-22 19:59:55 +00:00
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" From: @(#)err.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
.\" $Id: err.3,v 1.6 1997/02/22 14:58:02 peter Exp $
.\" $Id: err.3,v 1.7 1997/03/19 00:43:13 bde Exp $
.\"
.Dd April 13, 1995
.Dt ERR 3
@ -83,18 +83,19 @@ In all cases, the last component of the program name, a colon character,
and a space are output.
If the
.Va fmt
argument is not NULL, the formatted error message, a colon character,
and a space are output.
argument is not NULL, the formatted error message is output.
In the case of the
.Fn err ,
.Fn verr ,
.Fn warn ,
and
.Fn vwarn
functions, the error message string affiliated with the current value of
functions,
the error message string affiliated with the current value of
the global variable
.Va errno
is output.
is also output,
preceded by another colon and space if necessary.
In all cases, the output is followed by a newline character.
.Pp
The