From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 23:37:35 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: man/man3/mbrtowc.3: RETURN VALUE: Tweak description of -2 return
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man/man3/mbrtowc.3: RETURN VALUE: Tweak description of -2 return

Signed-off-by: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
Message-ID: <f90b33d398ccf814083e300454df88e0937b94d3.1747784310.git.steffen@sdaoden.eu>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/man/man3/mbrtowc.3 b/man/man3/mbrtowc.3
index 5d34481d3..81751d32e 100644
--- a/man/man3/mbrtowc.3
+++ b/man/man3/mbrtowc.3
@@ -161,10 +161,10 @@ if an invalid multibyte sequence was
 encountered.
 It returns
 .I "(size_t)\ \-2"
-if it couldn't parse a complete multibyte
-character, meaning that
+if the consumed
 .I n
-should be increased.
+bytes form a valid partial character sequence;
+more subsequent data needs to be fed in.
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
 .BR attributes (7).