Re: [PATCH] process_vm_{read,write}v(3): initial man pages

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On Tuesday 20 March 2012 02:30:29 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> And another question about a different part of the page:
> > +.SH "RETURN VALUE"
> > +On success,
> > +.BR process_vm_readv ()
> > +returns the number of bytes read while
> > +.BR process_vm_writev ()
> > +returns the number of bytes written.
> > +
> > +On error, the number of bytes read or written is returned, or -1 is
> > +returned if it was unable to read/write any bytes; in either case,
> > +.I errno
> > +is set appropriately.
> 
> Is that last piece really true? On error, how does the syscall return
> number of bytes read or written *and* set errno?

yeah, this was a mistranslation by me from the .txt to the man page
-mike

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