returnvalue — The value returned by a function
phrase (db._phrase)replaceable
altanchorannotationbibliorefindexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobjectlinkolinkremarksubscriptsuperscriptxrefA returnvalue identifies the value returned by a function or command.
These elements contain returnvalue: bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, code, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, funcsynopsisinfo,
glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, html:button, html:label, html:legend, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle,
refname, refpurpose, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.
The following elements occur in returnvalue: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, xref.
funcdef, funcparams, funcprototype, funcsynopsisinfo, function, paramdef, parameter, varargs, void<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example returnvalue</title> <para>The <function>open</function> function returns <returnvalue>2</returnvalue> (<errorname>ENOFILE</errorname>) if the file does not exist. </para> </article>
The open function returns 2 (ENOFILE) if the file does not exist.