From: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:01:48 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: docs: Clarify, not every function that returns int returns -1 for errors.
X-Git-Tag: 1.7.1~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=aae5bebe6878c01803653fae166c58b7217b6100

docs: Clarify, not every function that returns int returns -1 for errors.
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diff --git a/src/guestfs.pod b/src/guestfs.pod
index da03128..dd06880 100644
--- a/src/guestfs.pod
+++ b/src/guestfs.pod
@@ -877,8 +877,8 @@ This closes the connection handle and frees up all resources used.
 
 =head1 ERROR HANDLING
 
-The convention in all functions that return C<int> is that they return
-C<-1> to indicate an error.
+API functions can return errors.  For example, almost all functions
+that return C<int> will return C<-1> to indicate an error.
 
 Additional information is available for errors: an error message
 string and optionally an error number (errno) if the thing that failed