Bug 72578

Summary:

strerror_r() unrecognized error numbers not correctly documented

Product:

Documentation

Reporter:

Jilles Tjoelker <jilles>

Component:

Books & Articles

Assignee:

Giorgos Keramidas <keramida>

Status:

Closed FIXED

Severity:

Affects Only Me

Priority:

Normal

Version:

Latest

Hardware:

Any

OS:

Any

Attachments:

Description	Flags
strerror.3.patch	none

Description Jilles Tjoelker freebsd_committer

2004-10-12 14:40:14 UTC

According to man strerror_r, strerror_r() does not change the buffer in case of
an invalid error number. Actually, it does, and this functionality is being
used, for example in the patch in PR standards/72394. It seems more useful.

Fix: patch included
How-To-Repeat: man strerror_r

Comment 1 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer

2004-10-12 15:53:03 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->patched

Patch committed to CURRENT.  Thanks :-)

Comment 2 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer

2004-10-12 15:59:52 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida

Grab this PR as a reminder for me that I have an MFC to do.

Comment 3 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer

2004-11-20 00:04:54 UTC

State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

Merged to RELENG_4 and RELENG_5.  Thanks!