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[PATCH] documentation bug in the manpage sysctl(3) fixed



Yes, it seems to be a documentation bug. Here is the patch.

Greetings,

Ilya Dogolazky

---
 lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
index bcd8f5d..cb9e9ba 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ by processes)
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 If the call to
 .Nm
-is successful, the number of bytes copied out is returned.
+is successful, 0 is returned.
 Otherwise \-1 is returned and
 .Va errno
 is set appropriately.
-- 
1.5.6.3



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