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authorjmc <jmc@openbsd.org>2013-08-14 08:39:24 +0000
committerjmc <jmc@openbsd.org>2013-08-14 08:39:24 +0000
commit720a7a94e09f2fa9b3979870e0f199a15d3a66d3 (patch)
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parentno longer any need to quote macro lines with >9 args; (diff)
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some Bx/Ox conversion;
From: Jan Stary
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diff --git a/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3 b/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
index 0309847df4c..b597eca9849 100644
--- a/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
+++ b/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: kvm_open.3,v 1.15 2013/06/05 03:40:26 tedu Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: kvm_open.3,v 1.16 2013/08/14 08:39:25 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: kvm_open.3,v 1.2 1996/03/18 22:33:52 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)kvm_open.3 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 5 2013 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 14 2013 $
.Dt KVM_OPEN 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -142,7 +142,9 @@ call.
.Pp
The
.Fn kvm_openfiles
-function provides BSD style error reporting.
+function provides
+.Bx
+style error reporting.
Here, error messages are not printed out by the library.
Instead, the application obtains the error message
corresponding to the most recent kvm library call using
@@ -195,4 +197,6 @@ function returns 0 on success and \-1 on failure.
.Sh BUGS
There should not be two open calls.
The ill-defined error semantics of the Sun library and the desire to have
-a backward-compatible library for BSD left little choice.
+a backward-compatible library for
+.Bx
+left little choice.