errno man page query

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Hello

Quoting from this page:

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/errno.3.html

"a function that succeeds is allowed to change errno."

^ This sounds clear, e.g. open() can change errno to 0, when it returns a valid fd handle.


"Valid error numbers are all nonzero; errno is never set to zero by any system
       call or library function."

^ This seems to be counter what the earlier line said. Therefore, open() wouldn't be allowed to change errno to 0.

Have I missed something?

Best regards, Jon
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