[PATCH 3/3] docs/audit_open.3: Document that audit_open() is setting errno on failure

Laurent Bigonville bigon at debian.org
Sat Feb 9 15:50:35 UTC 2013


From: Laurent Bigonville <bigon at bigon.be>

Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com>

See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642501
---
 docs/audit_open.3 |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/audit_open.3 b/docs/audit_open.3
index 0feb782..6ec8eb0 100644
--- a/docs/audit_open.3
+++ b/docs/audit_open.3
@@ -15,4 +15,16 @@ audit_open creates a NETLINK_AUDIT socket for communication with the kernel part
 Returns \-1 if an error occurs; otherwise, the return value is a descriptor referencing the socket.
 
+.SH ERRORS
+
+The
+.BR audit_open ()
+function may fail and set
+.I errno
+for any of the errors specified for the
+.BR socket (2)
+and
+.BR fcntl (2)
+routines.
+
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 
-- 
1.7.10.4




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