LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man3 / dirfd.3

diff --git a/original/man3/dirfd.3 b/original/man3/dirfd.3
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--- a/original/man3/dirfd.3
+++ b/original/man3/dirfd.3
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
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-.TH DIRFD 3 2010-09-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH DIRFD 3 2013-07-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 dirfd \- get directory stream file descriptor
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ It will be automatically closed when
 is called.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success, a nonnegative file descriptor is returned.
-On error, \-1 is returned.
+On error, \-1 is returned, and
+.I errno
+is set to indicate the cause of the error.
 .SH ERRORS
 POSIX.1-2008 specifies two errors,
 neither of which is returned by the current
@@ -82,6 +84,11 @@ does not refer to a valid directory stream.
 .B ENOTSUP
 The implementation does not support the association of a file
 descriptor with a directory.
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR dirfd ()
+function is thread-safe.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 POSIX.1-2008.
 This function was a BSD extension, present in 4.3BSD-Reno, not in 4.2BSD.
@@ -103,3 +110,12 @@ is defined.
 .BR scandir (3),
 .BR seekdir (3),
 .BR telldir (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.