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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:23:02 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Essien To: alex@manpages.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Cc: Simon Essien Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] man3/getgrnam: clarify error behavior when entry is not found Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:22:32 +0000 Message-ID: <20251127132249.3566-2-champbreed1@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.51.0 In-Reply-To: <20251127132249.3566-1-champbreed1@gmail.com> References: <20251127132249.3566-1-champbreed1@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- 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