[CC += Branden] Hello Aitch, On 2/10/22 01:42, hk wrote: > Good day > > I'm not sure that is a bug or I'm missing something, but still. > > There is man-page for pthread_join() function and in its "ERRORS" > section one > error code - EINVAL - is mentioned twice with different causes, so I > have doubts > about how to handle such of an error. > > Here is a link https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/pthread_join.3.html > > Could you correct that if it is a mistype? Or, may be add some kind of > explanation for that kind of situation. It's just that there's more than one reason you could get that error. Other Unix systems' manual pages also use this syntax[1][2]. At first it also seemed weird to me, I'll admit. I don't know if some other syntax could be easier to read/understand... Maybe something like: [ EXXX Reason for EXXX. EYYY * One reason for EYYY. * Another reason for EYYY. ] [1]: <https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=open&apropos=0&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+13.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html#ERRORS> [2]: <https://man.openbsd.org/open.2#ERRORS> Thanks, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
