As I was reading "man 3 error", I noticed that it mentioned "perror(errnum)", but it is "strerror" that gives back a string description given an error code. The problem was noticed in man-pages 3.25, and the patch was made against current git. diff --git a/man3/error.3 b/man3/error.3 index fc4dfbe..f2fcf8c 100644 --- a/man3/error.3 +++ b/man3/error.3 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ the program name, a colon and a space, the message specified by the .BR printf (3)-style format string \fIformat\fP, and, if \fIerrnum\fP is nonzero, a second colon and a space followed by the string given by -\fBperror(\fIerrnum\fB)\fP. +\fBstrerror(\fIerrnum\fB)\fP. Any arguments required for .I format should follow -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
