Bug 212103

Summary: ENODATA documentation error
Product: Documentation Reporter: Mark Kettenis (kettenis)
Component: man-pagesAssignee: documentation_man-pages (documentation_man-pages)
Status: RESOLVED DOCUMENTED    
Severity: normal CC: alx
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Mark Kettenis 2021-03-07 13:46:53 UTC 
The documentation for the ENODATA incorrectly documents it as (POSIX.1-2001).  This error value is part of the (obsolete) XSI STREAMS option so it should be documented as (POSIX.1 (XSI STREAMS option)).  This is important since ENODATA
should not be used in portable software as implementation of the options is, well, optional.  This is especially important for the XSI STREAMS option since that option has been marked as obsolete for more than a decade now.

Also note that ENOBUFS is also documented incorrectly.  This error value is properly part of POSIX and not part of the XSI STREAMS option, so it should be part of (POSIX.1-2001).
Comment 1 Alejandro Colomar 2021-03-19 23:12:22 UTC 
Hi Mark,

Thanks for the report!

I applied the following patch:
<https://github.com/alejandro-colomar/man-pages/commit/f2b03a66a862c6110a4e19803b21f951b2e418e8>

Cheers,

Alex