Re: errno "SEE ALSO" link on each page which returns errno values

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On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Jon Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 17/04/12 20:45, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>
>> Jon,
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Jon Grant<jg@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I saw quite a lot of pages have this text:
>>>
>>> "in which case errno is set appropriately".
>>>
>>> e.g.
>>> http://kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/close.2.html
>>>
>>> Could I ask, it would be useful to have a SEE ALSO link for errno
>>> page, would that be possible?
>>
>>
>> Since that would be the majority of the pages, what would the purpose be?
>
>
> errno is a relevant link IMHO. Otherwise we have to click out, navigate to
> the page manually.

Okay. I'll add that.

Thanks,

Michael


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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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