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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string/strerror.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/string/strerror.3 | 22 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 b/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 index 0d4f084e5e0..6c5b890fa4c 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: strerror.3,v 1.15 2017/09/05 03:16:13 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: strerror.3,v 1.16 2019/05/16 13:35:16 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California. .\" Copyright (c) 2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 5 2017 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: May 16 2019 $ .Dt STRERROR 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -95,14 +95,6 @@ returns zero upon successful completion. If an error occurs, the error code is stored in .Va errno and the error code is returned. -.Sh ENVIRONMENT -On other operating systems, the behaviour of -.Fn strerror -and -.Fn strerror_r -may depend on the -.Dv LC_MESSAGES -.Xr locale 1 . .Sh ERRORS All these functions may fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er @@ -150,3 +142,13 @@ and .Fn strerror_l since .Ox 6.2 . +.Sh CAVEATS +On systems other than +.Ox , +the +.Dv LC_MESSAGES +.Xr locale 1 +category can cause different strings to be returned instead of the +normal error messages; see CAVEATS in +.Xr setlocale 3 +for details. |