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| author | mikel <mikel@NetBSD.org> | 1997-02-21 07:44:50 +0000 |
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| committer | mikel <mikel@NetBSD.org> | 1997-02-21 07:44:50 +0000 |
| commit | 28acf64f40d1b937397dbc19ce8d8182c6524327 (patch) | |
| tree | ea661337127708eb6a022b86219a35db81540f17 /lib/libc | |
| parent | 2eff5a60599a367f32a9eabda5f68c0e98805f57 (diff) | |
clarify what is printed; from Arne Henrik Juul in PR 3242, with some
minor editing by myself.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/err.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/err.3 b/lib/libc/gen/err.3 index be7f3a8c5e4..b6a86bc7c01 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/err.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/err.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: err.3,v 1.5 1995/02/25 13:40:57 cgd Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: err.3,v 1.6 1997/02/21 07:44:50 mikel Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -74,9 +74,8 @@ error output. 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. +.Fa fmt +argument is not NULL, the formatted error message is output. In the case of the .Fn err , .Fn verr , @@ -86,7 +85,9 @@ and functions, the error message string affiliated with the current value of the global variable .Va errno -is output. +is output next, preceded by a colon character and a space if +.Fa fmt +is not NULL. In all cases, the output is followed by a newline character. .Pp The |
