[PATCH] ptsname.3: ERRORS: remove EINVAL

Arjun Shankar
2017-06-08T12:52:18Z

The glibc implementation of 'ptsname_r' no longer checks if it has
been called with a NULL 'buf' [1], and therefore cannot return an
EINVAL error.

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=8f0a947
(prior to the release of glibc 2.26)

Signed-off-by: Arjun Shankar <arjun.is-xDe9EDckjEKzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
---
man3/ptsname.3 | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man3/ptsname.3 b/man3/ptsname.3
index 90133fe..fd98b6b 100644
--- a/man3/ptsname.3
+++ b/man3/ptsname.3
@@ -58,12 +58,6 @@ is set to indicate the error.
.\" result -- MTK, Dec 04
.SH ERRORS
.TP
-.B EINVAL
-.RB ( ptsname_r ()
-only)
-.I buf
-is NULL.
-.TP
.B ENOTTY
.I fd
does not refer to a pseudoterminal master device.
--
2.9.4

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