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[PATCH 1/5] manual: Update to mention ENODEV for ttyname and ttyname_r
- From: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu at parabola dot nu>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: christian dot brauner at mailbox dot org
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 23:53:17 -0400
- Subject: [PATCH 1/5] manual: Update to mention ENODEV for ttyname and ttyname_r
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- References: <20171012035321.22094-1-lukeshu@parabola.nu>
Commit 15e9a4f3 by Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@canonical.com>
introduced ENODEV as a possible error condition for ttyname and ttyname_r.
The manual should mention this.
---
ChangeLog | 4 ++++
manual/terminal.texi | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a3c6b0ab19..cc036f7b88 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2017-10-11 Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@parabola.nu>
+
+ * manual/terminal.texi: Mention ENODEV for ttyname and ttyname_r.
+
2017-10-10 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
* sysdeps/generic/libm-alias-double.h (libm_alias_double_other_r):
diff --git a/manual/terminal.texi b/manual/terminal.texi
index 4fef5045b8..f505e93af6 100644
--- a/manual/terminal.texi
+++ b/manual/terminal.texi
@@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ The @var{filedes} is not associated with a terminal.
@item ERANGE
The buffer length @var{len} is too small to store the string to be
returned.
+
+@item ENODEV
+The @var{filedes} is valid, and is associated with a terminal, and
+that terminal is a slave psuedo-terminal, but the associated file name
+could not be determined. This is a GNU extension.
@end table
@end deftypefun
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2.14.2