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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-10-26 11:37:59 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-10-26 11:37:59 +0000
commit0ceb9e830d07594af07bdc18f17408b4a3812211 (patch)
treebfa0813170935799ff6265c3e0a70dc6e2952c42 /lib/libc/stdlib
parent0a39a6b171e513db18b82d2aa16deee377802759 (diff)
clarifications from ray lai;
tweaked by tedu@ and myself;
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.38
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3
index 11910a627ce..93fc746ee2e 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: strtonum.3,v 1.11 2005/04/14 07:58:46 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: strtonum.3,v 1.12 2005/10/26 11:37:58 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Ted Unangst
.\"
@@ -77,7 +77,9 @@ The
.Fn strtonum
function returns the result of the conversion,
unless the value would exceed the provided bounds or is invalid.
-On error, 0 is returned and
+On error, 0 is returned,
+.Va errno
+is set, and
.Fa errstr
will point to an error message.
.Fa *errstr
@@ -100,7 +102,7 @@ if (errstr)
.Ed
.Pp
The above example will guarantee that the value of iterations is between
-1 and 64.
+1 and 64 (inclusive).
.Sh ERRORS
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er ERANGE