Jason McIntyre wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:40:29PM -0400, Michael McConville wrote:
> > Could also say "Use the err(3) and warn(3) family of functions." That's
> > what the err(3) man page intro refers to it as.
> >
>
> please some developer commit or reject this. thanks,
> jmc
Ingo gave an off-list ok for either one. He said he had a slight
preference for the "family" wording, which I now also do. Here it is:
Index: share/man/man9/style.9
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man9/style.9,v
retrieving revision 1.59
diff -u -p -r1.59 style.9
--- share/man/man9/style.9 23 Jan 2015 13:02:49 -0000 1.59
+++ share/man/man9/style.9 23 Sep 2015 18:13:01 -0000
@@ -521,11 +521,12 @@ Routines returning
.Li void *
should not have their return values cast to any pointer type.
.Pp
-Use
+Use the
.Xr err 3
-or
-.Xr warn 3 ,
-don't roll your own!
+and
+.Xr warn 3
+family of functions.
+Don't roll your own!
.Bd -literal -offset indent
if ((four = malloc(sizeof(struct foo))) == NULL)
err(1, NULL);
