From 890b24b2d7d988cc0fb0d884aa38fcac5267d2f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Dominik=20S=C3=BC=C3=9F?= <dominik@suess.wtf>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:57:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: note misleading error code in `uv_os_get_passwd`

---
 docs/src/misc.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/src/misc.rst b/docs/src/misc.rst
index 39241df8..e75cd54a 100644
--- a/docs/src/misc.rst
+++ b/docs/src/misc.rst
@@ -541,6 +541,10 @@ API
     memory allocated to `pwd` needs to be freed with
     :c:func:`uv_os_free_passwd`.
 
+    .. note::
+        If the effective uid does not have an entry in the password file this
+        function will return ENOENT even if the file exists.
+
     .. versionadded:: 1.9.0
 
 .. c:function:: void uv_os_free_passwd(uv_passwd_t* pwd)