docs/75995: hcreate(3) documentation(?) bug
Ben Kaduk
minimarmot at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 04:35:21 UTC 2008
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot at gmail.com> wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/75995; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot at gmail.com>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: docs/75995: hcreate(3) documentation(?) bug
> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:03:45 -0400
>
> It definitely looks like a documentation bug.
>
> I've put a patch up at
> http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/user/kaduk/freebsd/patches/htcreate.diff.2008.07.01
> in case gmail mangles the whitespace.
>
> Thanks to sbahra on #bsddocs for pointing out that we should mention that
> errno gets set.
>
> -Ben Kaduk
[...]
> @@ -111,7 +112,7 @@
> .Sh RETURN VALUES
> The
> .Fn hcreate
> -function returns 0 if it cannot allocate sufficient space for the table;
> +function returns 0 if the table creation failed;
That should be
if the table creation failed and sets errno;
the linked patch is updated.
-Ben Kaduk
> otherwise, it returns non-zero.
> .Pp
> The
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