[PATCH v2 1/2] man3/getgrnam: fix ATTRIBUTES table after adding R-functions

[PATCH v2 1/2] man3/getgrnam: fix ATTRIBUTES table after adding R-functions

[Simon Essien]

---
 man/man3/getgrnam.3 | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/man3/getgrnam.3 b/man/man3/getgrnam.3
index 7d6365caa..87eaf39d5 100644
--- a/man/man3/getgrnam.3
+++ b/man/man3/getgrnam.3
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-'\" t
 .\" Copyright, the authors of the Linux man-pages project
 .\"
 .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
-- 
2.50.1

[PATCH v2 2/2] man3/getgrnam: clarify error behavior when entry is not found

[Simon Essien]

---
 man/man3/getgrnam.3 | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man3/getgrnam.3 b/man/man3/getgrnam.3
index 87eaf39d5..1a2143d47 100644
--- a/man/man3/getgrnam.3
+++ b/man/man3/getgrnam.3
@@ -156,12 +156,15 @@ In case of error, an error number is returned, and NULL is stored in
 .IR *result .
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
-.BR 0 " or " ENOENT " or " ESRCH " or " EBADF " or " EPERM " or ..."
+.BR 0
+No matching group record was found, or no error occurred (POSIX behavior).
+.TP
+.B ENOENT ", " ESRCH ", " EBADF ", " EPERM ", or other values"
 The given
 .I name
 or
 .I gid
-was not found.
+was not found. (Some UNIX implementations set errno in this case.)
 .TP
 .B EINTR
 A signal was caught;
-- 
2.50.1

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] man3/getgrnam: fix ATTRIBUTES table after adding R-functions

[Alejandro Colomar]

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> Cc: alex@manpages.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org

Lol.  I wonder if this is how stupid AI is at the moment, or if someone
is playing with us on purpose.

> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] man3/getgrnam: fix ATTRIBUTES table after adding R-functions

More lol.


Cheers,
Alex

On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 01:22:31PM +0000, Simon Essien wrote:
> ---
>  man/man3/getgrnam.3 | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man3/getgrnam.3 b/man/man3/getgrnam.3
> index 7d6365caa..87eaf39d5 100644
> --- a/man/man3/getgrnam.3
> +++ b/man/man3/getgrnam.3
> @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
> -'\" t
>  .\" Copyright, the authors of the Linux man-pages project
>  .\"
>  .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
> -- 
> 2.50.1
> 
> 

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Use port 80 (that is, <...:80/>).

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[PATCH v2 2/2] man3/getgrnam: clarify error behavior when entry is not found

[Simon Essien]

---
 man/man3/getgrnam.3 | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man3/getgrnam.3 b/man/man3/getgrnam.3
index 87eaf39d5..1a2143d47 100644
--- a/man/man3/getgrnam.3
+++ b/man/man3/getgrnam.3
@@ -156,12 +156,15 @@ In case of error, an error number is returned, and NULL is stored in
 .IR *result .
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
-.BR 0 " or " ENOENT " or " ESRCH " or " EBADF " or " EPERM " or ..."
+.BR 0
+No matching group record was found, or no error occurred (POSIX behavior).
+.TP
+.B ENOENT ", " ESRCH ", " EBADF ", " EPERM ", or other values"
 The given
 .I name
 or
 .I gid
-was not found.
+was not found. (Some UNIX implementations set errno in this case.)
 .TP
 .B EINTR
 A signal was caught;
-- 
2.50.1