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authorDaan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>2020-03-19 19:52:54 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2020-03-19 20:51:17 +0100
commit60ef0942976adaebb935a48ecbcace3b58e57a76 (patch)
treefe9b3c57e51f381c35852a1b37470bfb825982b5 /man/sd_bus_reply_method_error.xml
parent4bd859be95e6024ed6020a5f7bed4e8ae9002fc3 (diff)
downloadsystemd-60ef0942976adaebb935a48ecbcace3b58e57a76.tar.gz
sd-bus: Add sd_bus_reply_method_return docs + cleanups
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/man/sd_bus_reply_method_error.xml b/man/sd_bus_reply_method_error.xml
index 5a6cef6bad..a1062ce2a9 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_reply_method_error.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_reply_method_error.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
<refname>sd_bus_reply_method_errno</refname>
<refname>sd_bus_reply_method_errnof</refname>
- <refpurpose>Reply with an error to a method call</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Reply with an error to a D-Bus method call</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
@@ -63,12 +63,12 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
- <para>The <function>sd_bus_reply_method_error()</function> function sends an
- error reply to the <parameter>call</parameter> message. The error structure
- <parameter>e</parameter> specifies the error to send, and is used as described in
+ <para>The <function>sd_bus_reply_method_error()</function> function sends an error reply to the
+ <parameter>call</parameter> message. The error structure <parameter>e</parameter> specifies the
+ error to send, and is used as described in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_new_error</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- If no reply is expected to <parameter>call</parameter>, this function returns
- success without sending reply.</para>
+ If no reply is expected to <parameter>call</parameter>, this function succeeds without sending a
+ reply.</para>
<para>The <function>sd_bus_reply_method_errorf()</function> is to
<function>sd_bus_reply_method_error()</function> what
@@ -89,8 +89,9 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Return Value</title>
- <para>These functions return 0 if the error reply was successfully sent or if
- none was expected, and a negative errno-style error code otherwise.</para>
+ <para>This function returns a non-negative integer if the error reply was successfully sent or
+ if <parameter>call</parameter> does not expect a reply. On failure, it returns a negative
+ errno-style error code.</para>
<refsect2>
<title>Errors</title>
@@ -101,15 +102,14 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><constant>-EINVAL</constant></term>
- <listitem><para>The call message <parameter>call</parameter> is
+ <listitem><para>The input parameter <parameter>call</parameter> is
<constant>NULL</constant>.</para>
- <para>Message <parameter>call</parameter> is not a method call message.
- </para>
+ <para>Message <parameter>call</parameter> is not a method call message.</para>
<para>Message <parameter>call</parameter> is not attached to a bus.</para>
- <para>The error <parameter>error</parameter> parameter to
+ <para>The error parameter <parameter>error</parameter> to
<function>sd_bus_reply_method_error</function> is not set, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_error_is_set</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
- <para>In addition, any error message returned by
+ <para>In addition, any error returned by
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_send</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
may be returned.</para>
</refsect2>