On 05/29/13 00:30, Kennon Bittick wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to report what I believe is an error in the man page of > mprotect. The description of the return value says: > > "Upon successful completion, mprotect() shall return 0; otherwise, it > shall return -1 and set errno to indicate the error." > > However, in my use the behavior does not match this. I reviewed the > source code, and it appeared to match my experience rather than the > man pages' description. Instead, the function returns (error_code * > -1) and does not change errno. > > I am new to bug reporting, so I apologize if I have made a mistake in > the format or content of the report. Thank you. Kennon, How are you calling mprotect()? The wrapper function does the manipulation of errno. See syscalls(2). Cheers, Michael -- 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
