From 02e701cde37e3d01bd9ba4d615e56784498b7ef6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 22:59:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] syscall.2: Minor wording tweaks Reported-by: Jonny Grant Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/syscall.2 | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/syscall.2 b/man2/syscall.2 index 2fd94db53..382c40b22 100644 --- a/man2/syscall.2 +++ b/man2/syscall.2 @@ -82,9 +82,8 @@ when invoking a system call that has no wrapper function in the C library. .BR syscall () saves CPU registers before making the system call, restores the registers upon return from the system call, -and stores any error code returned by the system call in -.BR errno (3) -if an error occurs. +and stores any error returned by the system call in +.BR errno (3). .PP Symbolic constants for system call numbers can be found in the header file .IR . @@ -92,7 +91,7 @@ Symbolic constants for system call numbers can be found in the header file The return value is defined by the system call being invoked. In general, a 0 return value indicates success. A \-1 return value indicates an error, -and an error code is stored in +and an error number is stored in .IR errno . .SH NOTES .BR syscall ()