svn commit: r368714 - head/lib/libc/string

Jessica Clarke jrtc27 at freebsd.org
Thu Dec 17 13:01:06 UTC 2020


On 17 Dec 2020, at 12:53, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:41:47PM +0000, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
>> Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer)
>> Date: Thu Dec 17 12:41:47 2020
>> New Revision: 368714
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/368714
>> 
>> Log:
>>  strerror.3: Add an example for perror()
>> 
>>  This is a nice and quick reference.
>> 
>>  Reviewed by:	jilles, yuripv
>>  MFC after:	2 weeks
>>  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27623
>> 
>> Modified:
>>  head/lib/libc/string/strerror.3
>> 
>> Modified: head/lib/libc/string/strerror.3
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- head/lib/libc/string/strerror.3	Thu Dec 17 03:42:54 2020	(r368713)
>> +++ head/lib/libc/string/strerror.3	Thu Dec 17 12:41:47 2020	(r368714)
>> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
>> .\"     @(#)strerror.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
>> .\" $FreeBSD$
>> .\"
>> -.Dd December 7, 2020
>> +.Dd December 17, 2020
>> .Dt STRERROR 3
>> .Os
>> .Sh NAME
>> @@ -170,6 +170,31 @@ The use of these variables is deprecated;
>> or
>> .Fn strerror_r
>> should be used instead.
>> +.Sh EXAMPLES
>> +The following example shows how to use
>> +.Fn perror
>> +to report an error.
>> +.Bd -literal -offset 2n
>> +#include <fcntl.h>
>> +#include <stdio.h>
>> +#include <stdlib.h>
>> +
>> +int
>> +main(void)
>> +{
>> +	int fd;
>> +
>> +	if ((fd = open("/nonexistent", O_RDONLY)) == -1) {
>> +		perror("open()");
>> +		exit(1);
>> +	}
>> +        printf("File descriptor: %d\en", fd);
> This lines is indented with spaces, while other lines have tabs.
> 
>> +	return (0);
> return (0) is redundand.

It's not required as per the standard, but omitting it is needlessly
obfuscating it and bad practice. C lets you do a whole load of things
that are a bad idea, and whilst this one is harmless, it is nonetheless
confusing to anyone who is not intimately acquainted quirks like this
special case in the standard.

Jess



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