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Re: [PATCH 1/5] manual: Update to mention ENODEV for ttyname and ttyname_r
- From: Christian Brauner <christian dot brauner at mailbox dot org>
- To: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu at parabola dot nu>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:49:58 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] manual: Update to mention ENODEV for ttyname and ttyname_r
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:53:17PM -0400, Luke Shumaker wrote:
> 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.
Makes sense to me and is in line with a discussion I had with some of the
coreutils people.
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@end deftypefun
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