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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-02-07 08:55:00 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-02-07 08:55:00 +0000
commit8ddaeda30c7b06df82e789c760cecf4ea7c2b8de (patch)
treee18d160918c67034ec38a233ebf1d48ece6313e4 /lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3
parent25a5f2ab3b203e3920ee8568aca0e088a7569ad6 (diff)
tidy up ERRORS and STANDARDS;
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.317
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3
index f6e7b8222c1..08c58b256ed 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: strtonum.3,v 1.8 2004/11/22 00:58:39 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: strtonum.3,v 1.9 2005/02/07 08:54:59 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Ted Unangst
.\"
@@ -107,13 +107,16 @@ was larger than
.Ar maxval .
.El
.Pp
-If an error occurs, errstr will be set to one of the following strings.
-.Bl -tag -width "too large"
-.It "too large"
+If an error occurs,
+.Fa errstr
+will be set to one of the following strings:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width "too largeXX" -compact
+.It too large
The result was larger than the provided maximum value.
-.It "too small"
+.It too small
The result was smaller than the provided minimum value.
-.It "invalid"
+.It invalid
The string did not consist solely of digit characters.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
@@ -133,7 +136,7 @@ extension.
The existing alternatives, such as
.Xr atoi 3
and
-.Xr strtol 3
+.Xr strtol 3 ,
are either impossible or difficult to use safely.
.Sh HISTORY
The