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| author | des <des@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-01-06 18:11:53 +0000 |
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| committer | des <des@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-01-06 18:11:53 +0000 |
| commit | 76b479177d68eca7d7121427665c08ca7ffaf3b7 (patch) | |
| tree | b2891f8ddff12ca4475c2d8de6f517e644f4685b /lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 | |
| parent | 7bcec4ef4cc90cac63c72a5b732730c0f851c23c (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-76b479177d68eca7d7121427665c08ca7ffaf3b7.zip FreeBSD-src-76b479177d68eca7d7121427665c08ca7ffaf3b7.tar.gz | |
Make the implementation and documentation agree. Specifically:
- document that sysctl() and sysctlbyname() return 0 on success
- if the provided buffer is too small, set errno to ENOMEM and return -1
instead of returning ENOMEM.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 index 30e8e83..02a185c 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 @@ -667,9 +667,10 @@ If the amount of free and cache memory falls below this value, the pageout daemon will enter "memory conserving mode" to avoid deadlock. .El .Sh RETURN VALUES -If the call to .Fn sysctl -is successful, the number of bytes copied out is returned. +and +.Fn sysctlbyname +return 0 when successful. Otherwise \-1 is returned and .Va errno is set appropriately. |
