[PATCH v1] tzset.3: CAVEATS: Document the inability of tzset() to report errors

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NetBSD has tzalloc(3), which returns NULL to report invalid tme zones.

Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Range-diff against v0:
-:  --------- > 1:  72da4dab9 tzset.3: CAVEATS: Document the inability of tzset() to report errors

 man/man3/tzset.3 | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/man3/tzset.3 b/man/man3/tzset.3
index 701cebee5..91136ff86 100644
--- a/man/man3/tzset.3
+++ b/man/man3/tzset.3
@@ -278,6 +278,9 @@ .SH CAVEATS
 .I tm_zone
 members of the broken-down time structure
 .BR tm (3type).
+.P
+This function does not report errors.
+There's no way to know if the value of TZ represents a valid time zone.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR date (1),
 .BR gettimeofday (2),

base-commit: bd576aaf5fce40100133c1d48c02eacbf25594c8
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2.45.2

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