From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 20:57:58 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Add a comment.
X-Git-Tag: v0.1~3644
X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=60b0b1d24b22c26b2390c5f591a5477429af8b39;p=gnulib.git

Add a comment.

* doc/posix-functions/strerror.texi: Add a comment.
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4d9c4ea55..8a6814379 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-11-09  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+	* doc/posix-functions/strerror.texi: Add a comment.
+
 2010-11-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
 	fdopendir: fix bug on MacOS X when low on file descriptors
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/strerror.texi b/doc/posix-functions/strerror.texi
index 84d92c3f1..1c1e46eb4 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/strerror.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/strerror.texi
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ OpenBSD 4.0, OSF/1 5.1, NonStop Kernel, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw.
 This function fails to return a string for out-of-range integers on
 some platforms:
 Solaris 8.
+(This is not a POSIX violation, but can still cause bugs because most programs
+call @code{strerror} without setting and testing @code{errno}.)
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: