Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@netbsd.org>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 03/15/2001 03:44:16
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Hmm...  maybe we can phrase this some way which sounds less like
throwing in the towel?  Either state, simply, that we do not document
all such returns, or state that it is a bug that we do not do so (in
BUGS)?

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Erik E. Fair wrote:

>
>Module Name:	basesrc
>Committed By:	fair
>Date:		Fri Mar 16 06:56:48 UTC 2001
>
>Modified Files:
>	basesrc/lib/libc/sys: intro.2
>
>Log Message:
>Added the following text to answer PR 7249:
>
>	The manual page for each system call will list some of the
>	common errno codes that system call can return, but that
>	should not be considered an exhaustive list, i.e.  a properly
>	written program should be able to gracefully recover from
>	any error that a system call might return.  Documenting
>	all the error codes that a system call can return in a more
>	specification-like manner would take more resources than
>	this project has available.
>
>
>To generate a diff of this commit:
>cvs rdiff -r1.23 -r1.24 basesrc/lib/libc/sys/intro.2
>
>Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
>copyright notices on the relevant files.
>

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				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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