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Issue of the Standard # S0737

Brief

Misprint in the description of the interface strerror_r

Detailed Description

There is a misprint in the description of the strerror_r interface: the errnum parameter name should be used instead of errno.

Problem location(s) in the standard

Linux Standard Base Core Specification 3.2, Chapter 13. Base Libraries, 13.5 Interface Definitions for libc.

Possible solutions

Replace the sentence: "The strerror_r() function shall return a pointer to the string corresponding to errno." with the following one: "The strerror_r() function shall return a pointer to the string corresponding to the error number errnum."

Accepted

LSB Bugzilla, 2360

Status

Fixed in LSB 3.2 Update 2

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