Update a few error descriptions w.r.t. obtaining the limits

that cause the errors to reality.

ok millert, jmc

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/intro.2 b/lib/libc/sys/intro.2
index 8f90f7478d4..19334a665ff 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/intro.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/intro.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: intro.2,v 1.32 2005/03/22 15:48:30 hshoexer Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: intro.2,v 1.33 2005/08/18 15:18:19 jaredy Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: intro.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:33:41 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1991, 1993
@@ -171,9 +171,15 @@ function).
 Maximum number of file descriptors allowable on the system
 has been reached and a request for an open cannot be satisfied
 until at least one has been closed.
+The
+.Xr sysctl 3
+variable
+.Va kern.maxfiles
+contains the current limit.
 .It Er 24 EMFILE Em "Too many open files" .
-(As released, the limit on the number of
-open files per process is 64.)
+The maximum number of file descriptors allowable for this process
+has been reached and a request for an open cannot be satisfied
+until at least one has been closed.
 .Xr getdtablesize 3
 will obtain the current limit.
 .It Er 25 ENOTTY Em "Inappropriate ioctl for device" .
@@ -208,8 +214,10 @@ function was issued on a socket, pipe or
 An attempt was made to modify a file or create a directory
 on a file system that was read-only at the time.
 .It Er 31 EMLINK Em "Too many links" .
-Maximum allowable hard links to a single file has been exceeded (limit
-of 32767 hard links per file).
+The maximum allowable number of hard links to a single file has been
+exceeded (see
+.Xr pathconf 2
+for how to obtain this value).
 .It Er 32 EPIPE Em "Broken pipe" .
 A write on a pipe, socket or
 .Tn FIFO
@@ -330,7 +338,9 @@ refused it.
 This usually results from trying to connect to a service that is
 inactive on the foreign host.
 .It Er 62 ELOOP Em "Too many levels of symbolic links" .
-A path name lookup involved more than 32 symbolic links.
+A path name lookup involved more than 32
+.Pq Dv SYMLOOP_MAX
+symbolic links.
 .It Er 63 ENAMETOOLONG Em "File name too long" .
 A component of a path name exceeded 255
 .Pq Dv MAXNAMELEN