From beab5e9dafc209f6d7e4612724d8b6be647cedf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tedu <>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 02:13:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] make it crystal clear that errstr is NULL after success

---
 src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3 | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3
index 08c58b25..ef089da0 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: strtonum.3,v 1.9 2005/02/07 08:54:59 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: strtonum.3,v 1.10 2005/04/14 02:13:29 tedu Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2004 Ted Unangst
 .\"
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ unless the value would exceed the provided bounds or is invalid.
 On error, 0 is returned and
 .Fa errstr
 will point to an error message.
+.Fa *errstr
+will be set to NULL on success; this fact can be used to differentiate
+a successful return of 0 from an error.
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 Using
 .Fn strtonum