From 06a285fcc80e1071b35e18c9291f5fcbe93c0c01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Schwarze Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:03:30 +0000 Subject: Below DIAGNOSTICS, document the SYSERR message level; jmc@ wondered what it meant and agrees with this patch. --- mandoc.1 | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 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 -.\" Copyright (c) 2012 Ingo Schwarze +.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014 Ingo Schwarze .\" .\" 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 -- cgit