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doc: specify that errno is a number, not a string
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The documentation erroneously described the errno property as an alias
for the code property, but that is not the case in the implementation.
errno is the error code of the error as a number, and code is the error
code of the error as a string.

PR-URL: #9007
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
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John Vilk authored and jasnell committed Oct 17, 2016
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### Class: System Error

#### error.code
#### error.errno

Returns a string representing the error code, which is always `E` followed by
a sequence of capital letters, and may be referenced in `man 2 intro`.

The properties `error.code` and `error.errno` are aliases of one another and
return the same value.
#### error.errno

Returns a number corresponding to the **negated** error code, which may be
referenced in `man 2 intro`. For example, an `ENOENT` error has an `errno` of
`-2` because the error code for `ENOENT` is `2`.

#### error.syscall

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