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Date:      Fri, 18 Jul 2014 21:29:59 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r268857 - head/lib/libc/gen
Message-ID:  <201407182129.s6ILTxxI098436@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: jilles
Date: Fri Jul 18 21:29:59 2014
New Revision: 268857
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/268857

Log:
  ttyname(3): Fix EBADF/ENOTTY error descriptions.
  
  Also, make sure to document the return values and errors for all three
  functions in the man page.
  
  PR:		191931
  MFC after:	1 week

Modified:
  head/lib/libc/gen/ttyname.3

Modified: head/lib/libc/gen/ttyname.3
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libc/gen/ttyname.3	Fri Jul 18 21:28:59 2014	(r268856)
+++ head/lib/libc/gen/ttyname.3	Fri Jul 18 21:29:59 2014	(r268857)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)ttyname.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd May 14, 2005
+.Dd July 18, 2014
 .Dt TTYNAME 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -76,6 +76,14 @@ function
 takes a buffer and length as arguments to avoid this problem.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 The
+.Fn isatty
+function returns 1 if
+.Fa fd
+refers to a terminal type device;
+otherwise, it returns 0 and may set
+.Va errno
+to indicate the error.
+The
 .Fn ttyname
 function
 returns the null terminated name if the device is found and
@@ -89,15 +97,23 @@ The
 function returns 0 if successful.
 Otherwise an error number is returned.
 .Sh ERRORS
-The
-.Fn ttyname_r
-may fail and return the following error codes:
+These functions may fail if:
 .Bl -tag -width Er
-.It Bq Er ENOTTY
+.It Bq Er EBADF
 The
 .Fa fd
 argument
 is not a valid file descriptor.
+.It Bq Er ENOTTY
+The file associated with
+.Fa fd
+is not a terminal.
+.El
+.Pp
+Additionally,
+.Fn ttyname_r
+may fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
 .It Bq Er ERANGE
 The
 .Fa bufsize



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