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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-06-23 22:03:30 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-06-23 22:03:30 +0000
commit06a285fcc80e1071b35e18c9291f5fcbe93c0c01 (patch)
tree431b3cd11e05cf68130d80d1e675fe7b847d6a29 /mandoc.1
parent57620fc93fe93f5eebaa896a2af6332119578275 (diff)
downloadmandoc-06a285fcc80e1071b35e18c9291f5fcbe93c0c01.tar.gz
Below DIAGNOSTICS, document the SYSERR message level;
jmc@ wondered what it meant and agrees with this patch.
Diffstat (limited to 'mandoc.1')
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diff --git a/mandoc.1 b/mandoc.1
index c8b7aa47..2530851c 100644
--- a/mandoc.1
+++ b/mandoc.1
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
.\" $Id$
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
-.\" Copyright (c) 2012 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
.\"
.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -524,6 +524,9 @@ fields are omitted when meaningless.
.Pp
Message levels have the following meanings:
.Bl -tag -width "warning"
+.It Cm syserr
+Opening or reading an input file failed, so the parser cannot
+even be started and no output is produced from that input file.
.It Cm fatal
The parser is unable to parse a given input file at all.
No formatted output is produced from that input file.
@@ -559,8 +562,7 @@ output mode.
The
.Nm
utility may also print messages related to invalid command line arguments
-or operating system errors, for example when memory is exhausted or
-input files cannot be read.
+or operating system errors, for example when memory is exhausted.
Such messages may not carry the prefix described above.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
This section summarises