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-rw-r--r--libavutil/file.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libavutil/file.h b/libavutil/file.h
index a7364fe8fe..1cae2951be 100644
--- a/libavutil/file.h
+++ b/libavutil/file.h
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ void av_file_unmap(uint8_t *bufptr, size_t size);
* Wrapper to work around the lack of mkstemp() on mingw.
* Also, tries to create file in /tmp first, if possible.
* *prefix can be a character constant; *filename will be allocated internally.
- * @return file descriptor of opened file (or -1 on error)
+ * @return file descriptor of opened file (or negative value corresponding to an
+ * AVERROR code on error)
* and opened file name in **filename.
* @note On very old libcs it is necessary to set a secure umask before
* calling this, av_tempfile() can't call umask itself as it is used in