Re: [PATCH] posix_memalign.3: some functions set errno.

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Elliot

On 4/19/19 3:25 PM, enh wrote:
> True of bionic, glibc, and musl. (I didn't check elsewhere.)

Thanks. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>   man3/posix_memalign.3 | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/man3/posix_memalign.3 b/man3/posix_memalign.3
> index b4e355662..84b24303e 100644
> --- a/man3/posix_memalign.3
> +++ b/man3/posix_memalign.3
> @@ -144,7 +144,9 @@ For all of these functions, the memory is not zeroed.
>   .BR valloc (),
>   and
>   .BR pvalloc ()
> -return a pointer to the allocated memory, or NULL if the request fails.
> +return a pointer to the allocated memory on success.
> +On error, NULL is returned, and \fIerrno\fP is set
> +to indicate the cause of the error.
>   .PP
>   .BR posix_memalign ()
>   returns zero on success, or one of the error values listed in the