LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

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

diff --git a/original/man3/errno.3 b/original/man3/errno.3
index daa4aec..ed053f8 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man3/errno.3
+++ b/original/man3/errno.3
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\" Copyright (c) 1996 Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL)
 .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
 .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
 .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
@@ -16,9 +17,9 @@
 .\" GNU General Public License for more details.
 .\"
 .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
-.\" License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free
-.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111,
-.\" USA.
+.\" License along with this manual; if not, see
+.\" <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" 5 Oct 2002, Modified by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 .\"    Updated for POSIX.1 2001
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" 2006-02-09 Kurt Wall, mtk
 .\"     Added non-POSIX errors
 .\"
-.TH ERRNO 3 2008-07-09 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ERRNO 3 2015-01-22 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 errno \- number of last error
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -50,7 +51,9 @@ a function that succeeds
 allowed to change
 .IR errno .
 
-Valid error numbers are all nonzero; \fIerrno\fP is never set to zero
+Valid error numbers are all nonzero;
+.I errno
+is never set to zero
 by any system call or library function.
 
 For some system calls and library functions (e.g.,
@@ -65,10 +68,15 @@ may have occurred, checking to see if
 .I errno
 has a nonzero value.
 
-\fIerrno\fP is defined by the ISO C standard to be a modifiable lvalue
-of type \fIint\fP, and must not be explicitly declared; \fIerrno\fP
+.I errno
+is defined by the ISO C standard to be a modifiable lvalue
+of type
+.IR int ,
+and must not be explicitly declared;
+.I errno
 may be a macro.
-\fIerrno\fP is thread-local; setting it in one thread
+.I errno
+is thread-local; setting it in one thread
 does not affect its value in any other thread.
 
 All the error names specified by POSIX.1
@@ -266,7 +274,11 @@ Too many levels of symbolic links (POSIX.1)
 Wrong medium type
 .TP
 .B EMFILE
-Too many open files (POSIX.1)
+Too many open files (POSIX.1);
+commonly caused by exceeding the
+.BR RLIMIT_NOFILE
+resource limit described in
+.BR getrlimit (2)
 .TP
 .B EMLINK
 Too many links (POSIX.1)
@@ -425,7 +437,7 @@ Remote I/O error
 Interrupted system call should be restarted
 .TP
 .B EROFS
-Read-only file system (POSIX.1)
+Read-only filesystem (POSIX.1)
 .TP
 .B ESHUTDOWN
 Cannot send after transport endpoint shutdown
@@ -443,7 +455,7 @@ No such process (POSIX.1)
 .B ESTALE
 Stale file handle (POSIX.1)
 .sp
-This error can occur for NFS and for other file systems
+This error can occur for NFS and for other filesystems
 .TP
 .B ESTRPIPE
 Streams pipe error
@@ -523,11 +535,21 @@ instead of including
 .IR <errno.h> .
 .BR "Do not do this" .
 It will not work with modern versions of the C library.
-However, on (very) old Unix systems, there may be no
+However, on (very) old UNIX systems, there may be no
 .I <errno.h>
 and the declaration is needed.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR errno (1),  \" In the moreutils package
 .BR err (3),
 .BR error (3),
 .BR perror (3),
 .BR strerror (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/.