On 06/08/2017 02:52 PM, Arjun Shankar wrote: > The glibc implementation of 'ptsname_r' no longer checks if it has > been called with a NULL 'buf' [1], and therefore cannot return an > EINVAL error. > > [1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=8f0a947 > (prior to the release of glibc 2.26) > > Signed-off-by: Arjun Shankar <arjun.is@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > man3/ptsname.3 | 6 ------ > 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man3/ptsname.3 b/man3/ptsname.3 > index 90133fe..fd98b6b 100644 > --- a/man3/ptsname.3 > +++ b/man3/ptsname.3 > @@ -58,12 +58,6 @@ is set to indicate the error. > .\" result -- MTK, Dec 04 > .SH ERRORS > .TP > -.B EINVAL > -.RB ( ptsname_r () > -only) > -.I buf > -is NULL. > -.TP > .B ENOTTY > .I fd > does not refer to a pseudoterminal master device. Thanks, Arjun. I applied a slightly different patch: diff --git a/man3/ptsname.3 b/man3/ptsname.3 index 0ce88a1..05f4958 100644 --- a/man3/ptsname.3 +++ b/man3/ptsname.3 @@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ is set to indicate the error. only) .I buf is NULL. +(This error is returned only for +.\" glibc commit 8f0a947cf55f3b0c4ebdf06953c57eff67a22fa9 +glibc 2.25 and earlier.) .TP .B ENOTTY .I fd Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
