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Modify SYNOPSIS to show protoypes of both versions of strerror_r(), 

and make other small clarifications of the description regarding
the two versions.
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Michael Kerrisk 2008-06-13 09:10:47 +00:00
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man3/strerror.3
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@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
.\" 2005-12-13, mtk, Substantial rewrite of strerror_r() description
.\" Addition of extra material on portability and standards.
.\"
.TH STRERROR 3 2007-07-26 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH STRERROR 3 2008-06-13 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
strerror, strerror_r \- return string describing error number
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -43,7 +43,11 @@ strerror, strerror_r \- return string describing error number
.sp
.BI "char *strerror(int " errnum );
.sp
.BI "int strerror_r(int " errnum ", char *" buf ", size_t " buflen );
/* XSI-compliant */
.sp
.BI "char *strerror_r(int " errnum ", char *" buf ", size_t " buflen );
/* GNU-specific */
.fi
.sp
.in -4n
@ -56,6 +60,8 @@ The XSI-compliant version of
is provided if:
.br
(_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600) && !\ _GNU_SOURCE
.br
Otherwise, the GNU-specific version is provided.
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR strerror ()
@ -118,7 +124,7 @@ is too small) and the string always includes a terminating null byte.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
The
.BR strerror ()
and
and the GNU-specific
.BR strerror_r ()
functions return
the appropriate error description string,