28 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
emaste
324e4c082c Renumber clauses to reduce diffs to other versions
NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Android's Bionic number the clauses 1 through 3,
so follow suit to make comparison easier.
2013-05-28 20:57:40 +00:00
emaste
6856a42290 Correct BUGS description of static buffer use
Since r142667 strerror has unconditionally returned a pointer to a
static buffer.

MFC after:	1 week
2012-07-27 21:38:14 +00:00
eadler
ffb285ee19 Add err(3) to strerror(3) SEE ALSO section
PR:		docs/164940
Submitted by:	Niclas Zeising <zeising@daemonic.se>
Approved by:	cperciva
MFC after:	3 days
2012-02-16 05:06:07 +00:00
jilles
c902a38c4a Allow strerror(0) and strerror_r(0, ...).
Of course, strerror_r() may still fail with ERANGE.

Although the POSIX specification said this could fail with EINVAL and
doing this likely indicates invalid use of errno, most other
implementations permitted it, various POSIX testsuites require it to
work (matching the older sys_errlist array) and apparently some
applications depend on it.

PR:		standards/151316
MFC after:	1 week
2011-04-05 21:56:05 +00:00
imp
cd1f140ae4 Per Regents of the University of Calfornia letter, remove advertising
clause.

# If I've done so improperly on a file, please let me know.
2007-01-09 00:28:16 +00:00
keramida
c857f72425 Correctly document the return value of strerror() and strerror_r() and
the contents of the returned buffer for unknown error codes.

PR:		docs/72578
Submitted by:	Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
MFC after:	3 days
2004-10-12 14:52:52 +00:00
tjr
8d1bd25993 Add back the Standards section claiming conformance to 1003.1-2001 and
C99 now that all known standards-related bugs have been fixed.
2002-12-19 10:24:52 +00:00
mike
91ae3fa45d Rearrange strerror() so that its itoa procedure can be used with
strerror_r().  Doing this allows us to ensure that strerror_r() always
fills the supplied buffer regardless of EINVAL or ERANGE errors.

strerror()'s semantics have changed slightly such that an argument of
0 is now considered invalid and errno is set to EINVAL.

Remove internal regression test for strerror() and strerror_r().  This
will be reincarnated in src/tools/regression/lib/libc/string.

In strerror(3), add a comment about strerror()'s bogus return type.

PR:	44356
2002-12-18 16:53:31 +00:00
tjr
5e38b5707c Remove the Standards section again until we get these functions sorted
out. This will probably have to wait until after 5.0-R.
2002-10-24 01:24:26 +00:00
tjr
77d4d24de8 Add a Standards section, claiming conformance to IEEE Std. 1003.1-2001.
Also add a note to the Bugs section pointing out that strerror() and
perror() share the same static buffer.
2002-10-23 10:16:21 +00:00
jedgar
7145201256 Revert last commit. stdio.h include is for perror(), not strerror() 2002-01-31 13:32:14 +00:00
jedgar
1166498e69 strerror(3) is in string.h, not stdio.h
MFC after:	1 week
2002-01-31 13:20:48 +00:00
ru
1af36d2081 mdoc(7) police: minor markup nits. 2001-12-12 15:02:32 +00:00
wes
fc6e3f4328 Make strerror and strerror_r use sys_errlist[0] for errnum = 0. Be
more careful about reporting truncation with ERANGE in strerror_r.
Set errno to EINVAL for "unknown" errnum in strerror as required
by P1003.1-200x Draft June 14, 2001.

More carefully document the handling of strerrbuf when errors
(ERANGE, EINVAL) are encountered in strerror_r.

Reviewed by:	bde (ongoing discussion)
2001-12-07 06:28:58 +00:00
wes
9a811aeadb New, improved, more Posix-compliant strerror_r implementation,
complete with documentation.

Reviewed by:	mike@ gad@
MFC after:	1 week
2001-12-06 04:53:31 +00:00
wes
bdb2c68332 Add strerror_r function per Posix prototype.
Reviewed by:	Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
MFC after:	2 weeks
2001-11-27 07:39:46 +00:00
ru
623da62a5a mdoc(7) police: Use the new .In macro for #include statements. 2001-10-01 16:09:29 +00:00
ru
317b7d8e37 mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call. 2001-07-10 13:41:46 +00:00
ru
8a6f8b5fe4 mdoc(7) police: split punctuation characters + misc fixes. 2001-02-01 16:38:02 +00:00
ru
0a221c5a50 mdoc(7) police: Ft/Vt now accept punctuation-type arguments. 2001-01-12 15:46:56 +00:00
phantom
5401879e3b Introduce ".Lb" macro to libc manpages.
More libraries manpages updates following.
2000-04-21 09:42:15 +00:00
peter
76f0c923fe $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 00:22:10 +00:00
nik
f7a8bc4c04 Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

     .\"    $Id$
     .\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by:            bde
1999-07-12 20:50:10 +00:00
rnordier
6e547702d7 (Whoops: make it better instead of worse this time). Clarify
processing of the string argument by perror().
1998-10-29 22:08:59 +00:00
rnordier
d023e194f9 Clarify processing of the string argument by perror(). 1998-10-29 21:59:38 +00:00
mpp
5e0b8a5234 Correctly use .Fn instead of .Nm to reference function names
in a bunch of man pages.

Use the correct .Bx  (BSD UNIX) or .At (AT&T UNIX) macros
instead of explicitly specifying the version in the text
in a bunch of man pages.
1996-08-22 23:31:07 +00:00
bde
0fa2dcd1ef Added `const' to types of sys_errlist and sys_nerr.
Use .Va instead of .Fa to describe these variables.

Say a little about inconsistent declarations of sys_errlist in the BUGS
section.
1996-04-19 14:02:03 +00:00
rgrimes
be22b15ae2 BSD 4.4 Lite Lib Sources 1994-05-27 05:00:24 +00:00