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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
| tree | 9df484304b560466d145e662c1c254ff0e9ae0ba /static/openbsd/man3/perror.3 | |
| parent | 160aa82b2d39c46ad33723d7d909cb4972efbb03 (diff) | |
docs: Added All OpenBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man3/perror.3 b/static/openbsd/man3/perror.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bed232d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man3/perror.3 @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: perror.3,v 1.11 2019/05/16 13:35:16 schwarze Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information +.\" Processing Systems. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: May 16 2019 $ +.Dt PERROR 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm perror +.Nd write error messages to standard error +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In stdio.h +.Ft void +.Fn perror "const char *string" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn perror +function looks up the error message string affiliated +with an error number and writes it, followed by a new-line, to the +standard error stream. +.Pp +If the argument +.Fa string +is not the +.Dv NULL +pointer and is not zero length, it is prepended to the message string and +separated from it by a colon and a space +.Pq Ql \&:\ \& . +Otherwise, only the error message string is printed. +.Pp +The contents of the error message string are the same as those returned by +.Fn strerror +with argument +.Fa errno . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr intro 2 , +.Xr psignal 3 , +.Xr setlocale 3 , +.Xr strerror 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn perror +function conforms to +.St -ansiC . +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn perror +function first appeared in +.At v4 . +.Sh CAVEATS +On systems other than +.Ox , +the +.Dv LC_MESSAGES +.Xr locale 1 +category can cause different strings to be printed instead of the +normal error messages; see CAVEATS in +.Xr setlocale 3 +for details. |
