Mercurial > hg > octave-nkf > gnulib-hg

annotate doc/posix-functions/strerror.texi @ 13148:f497bc6acd71

Find changesets by keywords (author, files, the commit message), revision number or hash, or revset expression.
strerror: Update documentation.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:07:50 +0200
parents e578654f58d3
children bb0ceefd22dc
Ignore whitespace changes - Everywhere: Within whitespace: At end of lines:
rev   line source
9638
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1 @node strerror
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2 @section @code{strerror}
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3 @findex strerror
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4
10876
c83dc7e8df57 Refer to new POSIX:2008 standard.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents: 10440
diff changeset
5 POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strerror.html}
9638
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7 Gnulib module: strerror
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
8
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
9 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
10 @itemize
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
11 @item
10429
69d9922a5bd2 Extend strerror to cover the added errno values.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents: 9638
diff changeset
12 This function does not support the error values that are specified by POSIX
69d9922a5bd2 Extend strerror to cover the added errno values.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents: 9638
diff changeset
13 but not defined by the system, on some platforms:
10883
e578654f58d3 Update doc for cygwin 1.7.
Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
parents: 10876
diff changeset
14 OpenBSD 4.0, OSF/1 5.1, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw.
9638
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
15 @item
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
16 This function fails to return a string for out-of-range integers on
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
17 some platforms:
10431
a75ed2b28dc5 Doc tweak.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents: 10429
diff changeset
18 Solaris 8.
9638
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
19 @end itemize
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
20
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
21 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
22 @itemize
070329237839 Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
parents:
diff changeset
23 @end itemize