[PATCH] man/man3/errno.3: clarify ENOTSUP and EOPNOTSUPP
From: Askar Safin
Date: Wed May 27 2026 - 14:25:37 EST
As revealed by Christian Brauner recently
( https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260527-fotowettbewerb-abwinken-einfach-83db3411945b@brauner/ ),
EOPNOTSUPP is widely used on Linux to mean "Operation not supported",
as opposed to "Operation not supported on socket".
Also, as seen in POSIX issue 8:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/errno.h.html
POSIX doesn't require ENOTSUP and EOPNOTSUPP to be distinct, so
let's update that, too.
Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@xxxxxxxxx>
---
man/man3/errno.3 | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man3/errno.3 b/man/man3/errno.3
index a070dab..fdd2710 100644
--- a/man/man3/errno.3
+++ b/man/man3/errno.3
@@ -477,13 +477,14 @@ Name not unique on network.
No such device or address (POSIX.1-2001).
.TP
.B EOPNOTSUPP
-Operation not supported on socket (POSIX.1-2001).
+Operation not supported (POSIX.1-2001).
+According to POSIX.1 this is "Operation not supported on socket",
+but on Linux it effectively means just "Operation not supported".
.IP
.RB ( ENOTSUP
and
.B EOPNOTSUPP
-have the same value on Linux, but
-according to POSIX.1 these error values should be distinct.)
+have the same value on Linux.)
.TP
.B EOVERFLOW
Value too large to be stored in data type (POSIX.1-2001).
base-commit: 9a4bfd0e50745c2649b6291db40b58e37c9c1c6b
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