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| author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-11-18 07:10:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-11-18 07:10:09 +0000 |
| commit | 2380e9f36bb924d447408dae2df085bacd3fca8d (patch) | |
| tree | 6e7dec08d802bc1b8c3e346cfa57b26b6b9a56ac /lib/libc/sys/chmod.2 | |
| parent | 6880f3a4d4a660d40ce8c44fc24d9ff5217a691d (diff) | |
clarify EINVAL
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/chmod.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/chmod.2 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2 b/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2 index a87b3ac4686..a0091d7532b 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2 @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: chmod.2,v 1.4 1997/11/18 07:10:08 millert Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: chmod.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:32:06 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 @@ -142,6 +143,9 @@ characters. The named file does not exist. .It Bq Er EACCES Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +.Fa mode +contains bits other than the file type and those described above. .It Bq Er ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. .It Bq Er EPERM @@ -157,7 +161,7 @@ An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. .El .Pp .Fn Fchmod -will fail if: +will fail and the file mode will be unchanged if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EBADF The descriptor is not valid. @@ -166,7 +170,7 @@ The descriptor is not valid. refers to a socket, not to a file. .It Bq Er EINVAL .Fa mode -is not valid, ie. contains extra bits. +contains bits other than the file type and those described above. .It Bq Er EROFS The file resides on a read-only file system. .It Bq Er EIO |