Re: [patch] wcsdup.3: Returns NULL on error

From
Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date
2017-03-20 16:51:30
On 03/18/2017 01:57 PM, Jan Heberer wrote:
Patch applies against man-pages-4.10

 From 224502bd506d7d46734949a4254e8bc3990547f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Heberer <redacted>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 13:54:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] wcsdup.3: Returns NULL on error
Thanks, Jan. For some reason your patch failed to apply, so I made 
the fix manually.

Cheers,

Michael
quoted hunk
Return value for failure was accidentally changed from NULL to -1 in 
man-pages commit 572acb41c48b6b8e690d50edff367d8b8b01702a.
---
  man3/wcsdup.3 | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man3/wcsdup.3 b/man3/wcsdup.3
index 56534ddcb..b4b0d41b4 100644
--- a/man3/wcsdup.3
+++ b/man3/wcsdup.3
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ and should be freed with
  On success,
  .BR wcsdup ()
  returns a pointer to the new wide-character string.
-On error, it returns \-1, with
+On error, it returns NULL, with
  .I errno
  set to indicate the cause of the error.
  .SH ERRORS

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