Philip Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Michael McConville <mm...@mykolab.com> wrote: > > The current version is somewhat awkward and forgets to mention that > > errno is set. I adapted the paragraph found in most other system call > > man pages. > > There are six syscalls that return an fd on success...and their > manpages all have totally different wording for the return value. > Whee. > > accept > The call returns -1 on error. If it succeeds, it returns a non-negative > integer that is a descriptor for the accepted socket. > > fhopen > Upon successful completion, fhopen() returns the file descriptor for the > opened file, while fhstat() and fhstatfs() return 0. Otherwise, -1 is > returned and errno is set to indicate the error. > > kqueue > kqueue() creates a new kernel event queue and returns a file descriptor. > If there was an error creating the kernel event queue, a value of -1 is > returned and errno set. > > open > If successful, open() returns a non-negative integer, termed a file > descriptor. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to > indicate the error. > > openat: same manpage as open but totally unmentioned in the RETURN > VALUES section > > socket > A -1 is returned if an error occurs, otherwise the return value is a > descriptor referencing the socket. > > <sigh> Some consistency that doesn't sacrifice clarity would be nice...
Before I do the busy-work: do the man page gurus have a preferred phrasing? I prefer fhopen(2)'s (listed above), which seems to be the most common.
