Signed-off-by: Elliott Hughes <enh@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/man/man3/getline.3 b/man/man3/getline.3 index e1c5b0d63..ac1040db2 100644 --- a/man/man3/getline.3 +++ b/man/man3/getline.3 @@ -95,11 +95,13 @@ but not including the terminating null byte (\[aq]\[rs]0\[aq]). This value can be used to handle embedded null bytes in the line read. .P -Both functions return \-1 on failure to read a line (including end-of-file -condition). -In the event of a failure, +At end of file, +both functions return \-1 with the file stream end-of-file indicator set. +On error, +both functions return \-1 with the file stream error indicator set, +and with .I errno -is set to indicate the error. +set to indicate the error. .P If .I *lineptr
