On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:26 AM, fkater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <fkater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > in man 3 readdir_r (man-pages-3.24, page date 2009-07-04) > the possible return values are described as: > > "The readdir_r() function returns 0 on success. On error, > it returns a positive error number." > > It is not mentioned which possible error numbers may occur. Well, it is, but it could be clearer. See the patch below, for man-pages-3.27. Thanks, Michael --- a/man3/readdir.3 +++ b/man3/readdir.3 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" Rework discussion of nonstandard structure fields. .\" 2008-09-11, mtk, Document readdir_r(). .\" -.TH READDIR 3 2009-07-04 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH READDIR 3 2010-09-10 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME readdir, readdir_r \- read a directory .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ is set appropriately. The .BR readdir_r () function returns 0 on success. -On error, it returns a positive error number. +On error, it returns a positive error number (listed under ERRORS). If the end of the directory stream is reached, .BR readdir_r () returns 0, and returns NULL in -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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
