From: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] man/man3/errno.3: clarify ENOTSUP and EOPNOTSUPP
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 18:15:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260527181549.2237547-1-safinaskar@gmail.com> (raw)
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@gmail.com>
---
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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2.47.3
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