Module Name: src
Committed By: kre
Date: Sun Sep 10 00:49:40 UTC 2017
Modified Files:
src/lib/libc/gen: devname.3
Log Message:
Fix a typo, and some wording improvements.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.14 -r1.15 src/lib/libc/gen/devname.3
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Index: src/lib/libc/gen/devname.3
diff -u src/lib/libc/gen/devname.3:1.14 src/lib/libc/gen/devname.3:1.15
--- src/lib/libc/gen/devname.3:1.14 Sat Sep 9 18:45:04 2017
+++ src/lib/libc/gen/devname.3 Sun Sep 10 00:49:40 2017
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: devname.3,v 1.14 2017/09/09 18:45:04 kamil Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: devname.3,v 1.15 2017/09/10 00:49:40 kre Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn devname
-function returns a pointer to the static buffer with the name of the block or character
-device in
+function returns a pointer to the static buffer with the name of the
+block or character device in
.Dq Pa /dev
with a device number of
.Fa dev ,
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ is returned.
.Pp
The
.Fn devname_r
-function is a reentrand and thread-safe version of
+function is a reentrant and thread-safe version of
.Fn devname .
This function returns the device name by copying it into the
.Fa path
@@ -88,10 +88,15 @@ will return
.Pp
If successful,
.Fn devname_r
-places a nul-terminated string containing the name of the device and returns 0.
-If error occurs
+places a nul-terminated string containing the name of the device in
+the buffer pointed to by
+.Ar path
+and returns 0.
+If an error occurs
.Fn devname_r
-will return error number indicating what went wrong.
+will return an error number from
+.In sys/errno.h
+indicating what went wrong.
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn devname_r
