Hello Linus, On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Linus Nilsson <lajnold@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch changes perror to strerror, as strerror is the one that takes an > error code. > The patch also adds a \fP after the underlining of "errnum", so the text > following it is no longer underlined. Thanks. Applied for man-pages-3.26. Cheers, Michael > The patch applies to current git. > > --- 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(\fP\fIerrnum\fP\fB)\fP. > Any arguments required for > .I format > should follow > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- 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