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From: Simon Essien <champbreed1@gmail.com>
To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, alx@kernel.org
Cc: Simon Essien <champbreed1@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] man3/getgrnam: clarify error behavior when entry is not found
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:25:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251127152629.684-2-champbreed1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251127152629.684-1-champbreed1@gmail.com>

---
 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


  reply	other threads:[~2025-11-27 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-27 15:25 [PATCH v2 1/2] man3/getgrnam: fix ATTRIBUTES table after adding R-functions Simon Essien
2025-11-27 15:25 ` Simon Essien [this message]
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2025-11-27 13:22 Simon Essien
2025-11-27 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] man3/getgrnam: clarify error behavior when entry is not found Simon Essien

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