kern/80587: accept(2) can return EINVAL for undocumented reason

[Arne H Juul]

The following reply was made to PR docs/80587; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Arne H Juul <arnej at europe.yahoo-inc.com>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/80587: accept(2) can return EINVAL for undocumented reason
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 08:59:02 +0200 (CEST)

 On Wed, 4 May 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
 > I think that documenting both cases in a single paragraph of accept(2)
 > is ok too:
 >
 > 	 .It Bq Er EINVAL
 > 	 .Xr listen 2
 > 	-has not been called on the socket descriptor.
 > 	+has not been called on the socket descriptor or the
 > 	+.Fa addrlen
 > 	+argument is negative.
 
 This is just a style thing, and personally I don't really mind
 either way; other system call man pages have separate paragraphs
 for same errno with different reasons, so I think it's best
 to follow that style.
 
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