From: Elliot Hughes <enh@google.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 20:25:21 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: posix_memalign.3: Some functions set errno
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posix_memalign.3: Some functions set errno

True of bionic, glibc, and musl. (I didn't check elsewhere.)

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man3/posix_memalign.3 b/man3/posix_memalign.3
index b4e3556629..84b24303e1 100644
--- a/man3/posix_memalign.3
+++ b/man3/posix_memalign.3
@@ -144,7 +144,9 @@ For all of these functions, the memory is not zeroed.
 .BR valloc (),
 and
 .BR pvalloc ()
-return a pointer to the allocated memory, or NULL if the request fails.
+return a pointer to the allocated memory on success.
+On error, NULL is returned, and \fIerrno\fP is set
+to indicate the cause of the error.
 .PP
 .BR posix_memalign ()
 returns zero on success, or one of the error values listed in the