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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2022-01-21 15:23:37 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2022-01-21 15:23:37 +0000
commitf41e79d10eba835c1d3cf295c2df1da31e868c10 (patch)
tree53240f65fb702b7ef73743b30ce3f836b31600da
parenta6f08bc8b05c33184509ccf89a353aaa155b5213 (diff)
Document EAGAIN error return, as specified by POSIX.
Our poll does not use EAGAIN but code needs to handle it for portability. OK deraadt@ visa@
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/poll.27
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/poll.2 b/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
index edaa375c071..ec0b2881e72 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: poll.2,v 1.38 2021/11/21 23:44:55 jan Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: poll.2,v 1.39 2022/01/21 15:23:36 millert Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1994 Jason R. Thorpe
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 21 2021 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 21 2022 $
.Dt POLL 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -300,6 +300,9 @@ and
.Fn ppoll
will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EAGAIN
+The kernel failed to allocate memory for temporary data structures;
+a later call may succeed.
.It Bq Er EFAULT
.Fa fds
points outside the process's allocated address space.