The previous wording wan't very explicit, leaving room for believing that errno may be 0 after returning EAI_SYSTEM. Use a wording similar to other pages, for added consistency. Reported-by: Cristian Morales Vega <christian.morales.vega@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> --- man3/getaddrinfo.3 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man3/getaddrinfo.3 b/man3/getaddrinfo.3 index 35071b733..1e13e3ef2 100644 --- a/man3/getaddrinfo.3 +++ b/man3/getaddrinfo.3 @@ -583,9 +583,9 @@ and respectively). .TP .B EAI_SYSTEM -Other system error, check +Other system error; .I errno -for details. +is set to indicate the error. .PP The .BR gai_strerror () -- 2.33.0