docs/75711: opendir manpage

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 2 01:40:10 UTC 2005


The following reply was made to PR docs/75711; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org>
Cc: abc at ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net, bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/75711: opendir manpage
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 03:37:45 +0200

 abc at ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net wrote:
 > man opendir(), only the closedir() info states errno settings.
 
 The opendir() implementation in libc calls the following functions or
 systems calls that may fail: close(), fcntl(), fstat(), malloc(),
 mergesort(), open(), stat(), reallocf().
 
 Should we document the join of all the possible errors these calls may
 fail with in opendir()'s manpage?



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