Understanding the Message Explanations

Each message in this book contains at least one of the following areas:

• Cause: What might have happened to cause the message

• Action: What you can do to fix the problem or, to continue with your work

• Technical Notes: Background information that might be interesting or helpful to a technical audience. This often contains information specifically for programmers.

  Whenever you see part of a message that says "errno=" and then a number, look up the number on the Intro(2) man page to see what it indicates. System error messages on the Intro(2) man page are organized numerically.

• See Also: Suggests further reading