git » libfiu » commit 7cb3d44

Add doxygen documentation

author Alberto Bertogli
2012-03-27 23:51:45 UTC
committer Alberto Bertogli
2012-03-27 23:59:12 UTC
parent e96826c35845057b289d3e4d0071d2acaa7062c0

Add doxygen documentation

This patch adds doxygen documentation for the public API, and integrates the
generation in the build system.

It also updates other related documentation files to keep them in sync.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>

.gitignore +3 -0
doc/guide.rst +19 -19
libfiu/Makefile +7 -1
libfiu/doxygen/Doxyfile.base.in +204 -0
libfiu/doxygen/Doxyfile.internal +7 -0
libfiu/doxygen/Doxyfile.public +8 -0
libfiu/doxygen/Makefile +33 -0
libfiu/fiu-control.h +53 -37
libfiu/fiu.c +2 -2
libfiu/fiu.h +27 -18
libfiu/libfiu.3 +7 -3

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 24e7bb9..72d4573 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ libfiu/libfiu.pc
 libfiu/libfiu.so
 libfiu/libfiu.so.*
 libfiu/build-flags
+libfiu/doxygen/doc.internal
+libfiu/doxygen/doc.public
+libfiu/doxygen/Doxyfile.base
 preload/posix/*.o
 preload/posix/*.so
 preload/posix/build-flags
diff --git a/doc/guide.rst b/doc/guide.rst
index c401b46..7b3d2cb 100644
--- a/doc/guide.rst
+++ b/doc/guide.rst
@@ -20,9 +20,8 @@ libfiu is a library that you can use to add fault injection to your code. It
 aims to be easy to use by means of a simple API, with minimal code impact and
 little runtime overhead when enabled.
 
-By minimal code impact I mean that the modifications you have to do to your
-code (and build system) in order to support libfiu should be as little
-intrusive as possible.
+That means that the modifications you have to do to your code (and build
+system) in order to support libfiu should be as little intrusive as possible.
 
 
 Code overview
@@ -31,8 +30,8 @@ Code overview
 Let's take a look to a small (fictitious) code sample to see what's the
 general idea behind libfiu.
 
-Let's say you have this code that checks if there's enough free space to store
-a given file::
+Assume that you have this code that checks if there's enough free space to
+store a given file::
 
         size_t free_space() {
                 [code to find out how much free space there is]
@@ -46,9 +45,9 @@ a given file::
                 return true;
         }
 
-As you can see, with current disk sizes, it's very, very strange that a disk
-runs out of free space. So the scenario where *free_space()* returns 0 is hard
-to test. With libfiu, you can modify that code into::
+With current disk sizes, it's very unusual to ran out of free space, which
+makes the scenario where *free_space()* returns 0 hard to test. With libfiu,
+you can do the following small addition::
 
         size_t free_space() {
                 fiu_return_on("no_free_space", 0);
@@ -64,9 +63,10 @@ to test. With libfiu, you can modify that code into::
                 return true;
         }
 
-There, you've just created a *point of failure* identified by the name
-"no_free_space", and said that when that point of failure is enabled, the
-function will return 0.
+The *fiu_return_on()* annotation is the only change you need to make to your
+code to create a *point of failure*, which is identified by the name
+**no_free_space**. When that point of failure is enabled, the function will
+return 0.
 
 In your testing code, you can now do this::
 
@@ -75,13 +75,13 @@ In your testing code, you can now do this::
         assert(file_fits("tmpfile") == false);
 
 The first line initializes the library, and the second *enables* the point of
-failure. As the point of failure is enabled, *free_space()* will return 0, so
-you can test how your code behaves under that condition, which was otherwise
-hard to trigger.
+failure. When the point of failure is enabled, *free_space()* will return 0,
+so you can test how your code behaves under that condition, which was
+otherwise hard to trigger.
 
-As you can see, libfiu's API has two "sides": a core API and a control API.
-The core API is used inside the code to be fault injected. The control API is
-used inside the testing code, in order to control the injection of failures.
+libfiu's API has two "sides": a core API and a control API.  The core API is
+used inside the code to be fault injected. The control API is used inside the
+testing code, in order to control the injection of failures.
 
 In the example above, *fiu_return_on()* is a part of the core API, and
 *fiu_enable()* is a part of the control API.
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ The build system
 
 The first thing to do is to enable your build system to use libfiu. Usually,
 you do not want to make libfiu a runtime or build-time dependency, because
-it's a testing library.
+it's often only used for testing.
 
 To that end, you should copy *fiu-local.h* into your source tree, and then
 create an option to do a *fault injection build* that #defines the constant
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ First, you should ``#include "fiu-local.h"`` in the files you want to add
 points of failure to. That header allows you to avoid libfiu as a build-time
 dependency, as mentioned in the last section.
 
-Then, to insert points of failure, you sprinkle your code with calls like
+Then, to insert points of failure, sprinkle your code with calls like
 ``fiu_return_on("name", -1)``, ``fiu_exit_on("name")``, or more complex code
 using ``fiu_fail("name")``. See the libfiu's manpage for the details on
 the API.
diff --git a/libfiu/Makefile b/libfiu/Makefile
index ed98034..07ebfca 100644
--- a/libfiu/Makefile
+++ b/libfiu/Makefile
@@ -109,14 +109,20 @@ $(OBJS): build-flags
 .c.o:
 	$(NICE_CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
 
+
+doxygen:
+	        $(MAKE) LIB_VER=$(LIB_VER) -C doxygen
+
+
 clean:
 	rm -f libfiu.pc $(OBJS) libfiu.so libfiu.so.$(LIB_VER) libfiu.a
 	rm -f *.bb *.bbg *.da *.gcov *.gcda *.gcno gmon.out build-flags
+	$(MAKE) -C doxygen $@
 
 .PHONY: default all libs \
 	install-lib install-man install \
 	uninstall-lib uninstall-man uninstall \
-	clean \
+	doxygen clean \
 	.force-build-flags
 
 
diff --git a/libfiu/doxygen/Doxyfile.base.in b/libfiu/doxygen/Doxyfile.base.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c8f6e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libfiu/doxygen/Doxyfile.base.in
@@ -0,0 +1,204 @@
+DOXYFILE_ENCODING      = UTF-8
+PROJECT_NAME           = libfiu
+PROJECT_NUMBER         = ++VERSION++
+OUTPUT_DIRECTORY       = 
+CREATE_SUBDIRS         = NO
+OUTPUT_LANGUAGE        = English
+BRIEF_MEMBER_DESC      = YES
+REPEAT_BRIEF           = YES
+ABBREVIATE_BRIEF       = 
+ALWAYS_DETAILED_SEC    = NO
+INLINE_INHERITED_MEMB  = NO
+FULL_PATH_NAMES        = NO
+STRIP_FROM_PATH        = 
+STRIP_FROM_INC_PATH    = 
+SHORT_NAMES            = NO
+JAVADOC_AUTOBRIEF      = YES
+QT_AUTOBRIEF           = YES
+MULTILINE_CPP_IS_BRIEF = NO
+INHERIT_DOCS           = YES
+SEPARATE_MEMBER_PAGES  = NO
+TAB_SIZE               = 8
+ALIASES                = 
+OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_FOR_C  = YES
+OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_JAVA   = NO
+OPTIMIZE_FOR_FORTRAN   = NO
+OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_VHDL   = NO
+EXTENSION_MAPPING      = 
+BUILTIN_STL_SUPPORT    = NO
+CPP_CLI_SUPPORT        = NO
+SIP_SUPPORT            = NO
+IDL_PROPERTY_SUPPORT   = YES
+DISTRIBUTE_GROUP_DOC   = NO
+SUBGROUPING            = YES
+TYPEDEF_HIDES_STRUCT   = NO
+SYMBOL_CACHE_SIZE      = 0
+EXTRACT_ALL            = NO
+EXTRACT_PRIVATE        = NO
+EXTRACT_STATIC         = NO
+EXTRACT_LOCAL_CLASSES  = YES
+EXTRACT_LOCAL_METHODS  = NO
+EXTRACT_ANON_NSPACES   = NO
+HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS     = NO
+HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSES     = NO
+HIDE_FRIEND_COMPOUNDS  = NO
+HIDE_IN_BODY_DOCS      = NO
+INTERNAL_DOCS          = NO
+CASE_SENSE_NAMES       = YES
+HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES       = NO
+SHOW_INCLUDE_FILES     = YES
+INLINE_INFO            = YES
+SORT_MEMBER_DOCS       = NO
+SORT_BRIEF_DOCS        = NO
+SORT_GROUP_NAMES       = NO
+SORT_BY_SCOPE_NAME     = NO
+GENERATE_TODOLIST      = YES
+GENERATE_TESTLIST      = YES
+GENERATE_BUGLIST       = YES
+GENERATE_DEPRECATEDLIST= YES
+ENABLED_SECTIONS       = 
+MAX_INITIALIZER_LINES  = 30
+SHOW_USED_FILES        = YES
+SHOW_DIRECTORIES       = YES
+SHOW_FILES             = YES
+SHOW_NAMESPACES        = YES
+FILE_VERSION_FILTER    = 
+LAYOUT_FILE            = 
+QUIET                  = YES
+WARNINGS               = YES
+WARN_IF_UNDOCUMENTED   = YES
+WARN_IF_DOC_ERROR      = YES
+WARN_NO_PARAMDOC       = YES
+WARN_FORMAT            = "$file:$line: $text"
+WARN_LOGFILE           = 
+INPUT                  = ../
+INPUT_ENCODING         = UTF-8
+FILE_PATTERNS          = *.c *.h *.doxy
+RECURSIVE              = YES
+EXCLUDE                = 
+EXCLUDE_SYMLINKS       = NO
+EXCLUDE_PATTERNS       = 
+EXCLUDE_SYMBOLS        = 
+EXAMPLE_PATH           = 
+EXAMPLE_PATTERNS       = 
+EXAMPLE_RECURSIVE      = NO
+IMAGE_PATH             = 
+INPUT_FILTER           = 
+FILTER_PATTERNS        = 
+FILTER_SOURCE_FILES    = NO
+SOURCE_BROWSER         = YES
+INLINE_SOURCES         = NO
+STRIP_CODE_COMMENTS    = YES
+REFERENCED_BY_RELATION = YES
+REFERENCES_RELATION    = NO
+REFERENCES_LINK_SOURCE = NO
+USE_HTAGS              = NO
+VERBATIM_HEADERS       = YES
+ALPHABETICAL_INDEX     = NO
+COLS_IN_ALPHA_INDEX    = 5
+IGNORE_PREFIX          = 
+GENERATE_HTML          = YES
+HTML_OUTPUT            = html
+HTML_FILE_EXTENSION    = .html
+HTML_HEADER            = 
+HTML_FOOTER            = 
+HTML_STYLESHEET        = 
+HTML_ALIGN_MEMBERS     = YES
+HTML_DYNAMIC_SECTIONS  = YES
+GENERATE_DOCSET        = NO
+DOCSET_FEEDNAME        = "Doxygen generated docs"
+DOCSET_BUNDLE_ID       = org.doxygen.Project
+GENERATE_HTMLHELP      = NO
+CHM_FILE               = 
+HHC_LOCATION           = 
+GENERATE_CHI           = NO
+CHM_INDEX_ENCODING     = 
+BINARY_TOC             = NO
+TOC_EXPAND             = YES
+GENERATE_QHP           = NO
+QCH_FILE               = 
+QHP_NAMESPACE          = 
+QHP_VIRTUAL_FOLDER     = doc
+QHP_CUST_FILTER_NAME   = 
+QHP_CUST_FILTER_ATTRS  = 
+QHP_SECT_FILTER_ATTRS  = 
+QHG_LOCATION           = 
+DISABLE_INDEX          = NO
+ENUM_VALUES_PER_LINE   = 4
+GENERATE_TREEVIEW      = NONE
+TREEVIEW_WIDTH         = 250
+FORMULA_FONTSIZE       = 10
+GENERATE_LATEX         = NO
+LATEX_OUTPUT           = latex
+LATEX_CMD_NAME         = latex
+MAKEINDEX_CMD_NAME     = makeindex
+COMPACT_LATEX          = NO
+PAPER_TYPE             = a4wide
+EXTRA_PACKAGES         = 
+LATEX_HEADER           = 
+PDF_HYPERLINKS         = YES
+USE_PDFLATEX           = YES
+LATEX_BATCHMODE        = NO
+LATEX_HIDE_INDICES     = NO
+GENERATE_RTF           = NO
+RTF_OUTPUT             = rtf
+COMPACT_RTF            = NO
+RTF_HYPERLINKS         = NO
+RTF_STYLESHEET_FILE    = 
+RTF_EXTENSIONS_FILE    = 
+GENERATE_MAN           = NO
+MAN_OUTPUT             = man
+MAN_EXTENSION          = .3
+MAN_LINKS              = NO
+GENERATE_XML           = NO
+XML_OUTPUT             = xml
+XML_SCHEMA             = 
+XML_DTD                = 
+XML_PROGRAMLISTING     = YES
+GENERATE_AUTOGEN_DEF   = NO
+GENERATE_PERLMOD       = NO
+PERLMOD_LATEX          = NO
+PERLMOD_PRETTY         = YES
+PERLMOD_MAKEVAR_PREFIX = 
+ENABLE_PREPROCESSING   = YES
+MACRO_EXPANSION        = NO
+EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF     = NO
+SEARCH_INCLUDES        = YES
+INCLUDE_PATH           = 
+INCLUDE_FILE_PATTERNS  = 
+PREDEFINED             = FIU_ENABLE
+EXPAND_AS_DEFINED      = 
+SKIP_FUNCTION_MACROS   = YES
+TAGFILES               = 
+GENERATE_TAGFILE       = 
+ALLEXTERNALS           = NO
+EXTERNAL_GROUPS        = YES
+PERL_PATH              = /usr/bin/perl
+CLASS_DIAGRAMS         = YES
+MSCGEN_PATH            = 
+HIDE_UNDOC_RELATIONS   = YES
+HAVE_DOT               = YES
+DOT_FONTNAME           = FreeSans
+DOT_FONTSIZE           = 10
+DOT_FONTPATH           = 
+CLASS_GRAPH            = YES
+COLLABORATION_GRAPH    = YES
+GROUP_GRAPHS           = YES
+UML_LOOK               = NO
+TEMPLATE_RELATIONS     = NO
+INCLUDE_GRAPH          = YES
+INCLUDED_BY_GRAPH      = YES
+CALL_GRAPH             = YES
+CALLER_GRAPH           = YES
+GRAPHICAL_HIERARCHY    = YES
+DIRECTORY_GRAPH        = YES
+DOT_IMAGE_FORMAT       = png
+DOT_PATH               = 
+DOTFILE_DIRS           = 
+DOT_GRAPH_MAX_NODES    = 50
+MAX_DOT_GRAPH_DEPTH    = 0
+DOT_TRANSPARENT        = YES
+DOT_MULTI_TARGETS      = NO
+GENERATE_LEGEND        = YES
+DOT_CLEANUP            = YES
+SEARCHENGINE           = NO
diff --git a/libfiu/doxygen/Doxyfile.internal b/libfiu/doxygen/Doxyfile.internal
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6066429
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libfiu/doxygen/Doxyfile.internal
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+@INCLUDE = Doxyfile.base
+PROJECT_NAME = "libfiu (internal)"
+OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = doc.internal
+EXTRACT_ALL = YES
+EXTRACT_STATIC = YES
+INTERNAL_DOCS = YES
+
diff --git a/libfiu/doxygen/Doxyfile.public b/libfiu/doxygen/Doxyfile.public
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..168bb3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libfiu/doxygen/Doxyfile.public
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+@INCLUDE = Doxyfile.base
+PROJECT_NAME = "libfiu (public)"
+OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = doc.public
+EXTRACT_ALL = YES
+EXTRACT_STATIC = NO
+INTERNAL_DOCS = NO
+INPUT = ../fiu.h ../fiu-control.h
+
diff --git a/libfiu/doxygen/Makefile b/libfiu/doxygen/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..daa51cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libfiu/doxygen/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+
+ifneq ($(V), 1)
+        NICE_DOXYGEN = @echo "  DOXYGEN  $@"; doxygen
+else
+        NICE_DOXYGEN = doxygen
+endif
+
+
+default: all
+
+all: public internal
+
+# $(LIB_VER) must be defined externally if we want the generated docs to
+# specify a version number. Usually, this Makefile will be invoked by
+# libfiu's, which has that variable properly defined.
+Doxyfile.base: Doxyfile.base.in
+	@echo "generating Doxyfile.base"
+	@cat Doxyfile.base.in | \
+		sed 's@++VERSION++@$(LIB_VER)@g' \
+		> Doxyfile.base
+
+public: Doxyfile.base
+	$(NICE_DOXYGEN) Doxyfile.public
+
+internal: Doxyfile.base
+	$(NICE_DOXYGEN) Doxyfile.internal
+
+clean:
+	rm -rf doc.internal doc.public Doxyfile.base
+
+
+.PHONY: all clean default doxygen internal public
+
diff --git a/libfiu/fiu-control.h b/libfiu/fiu-control.h
index 30ed4f1..1a8dfff 100644
--- a/libfiu/fiu-control.h
+++ b/libfiu/fiu-control.h
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 
+/** @file
+ *
+ * This header contains the control API.
+ * It should be used for controlling the injection of failures, usually when
+ * writing tests.
+ */
+
 #ifndef _FIU_CONTROL_H
 #define _FIU_CONTROL_H
 
@@ -6,71 +13,80 @@
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
-/*
- * Control API for libfiu
- */
 
 /* Flags for fiu_enable*() */
-#define FIU_ONETIME 1		/* Only fail once */
+
+/** Only fail once; the point of failure will be automatically disabled
+ * afterwards. */
+#define FIU_ONETIME 1
 
 
-/* Enables the given point of failure. That makes it always fail.
+/** Enables the given point of failure unconditionally.
  *
- * - name: point of failure name.
- * - failnum: what will fiu_fail() return, must be != 0.
- * - failinfo: what will fiu_failinfo() return.
- * - flags: flags.
- * - returns: 0 if success, < 0 otherwise.
+ * @param name  Name of the point of failure to enable.
+ * @param failnum  What will fiu_fail() return, must be != 0.
+ * @param failinfo  What will fiu_failinfo() return.
+ * @param flags  Flags.
+ * @returns 0 if success, < 0 otherwise.
  */
 int fiu_enable(const char *name, int failnum, void *failinfo,
 		unsigned int flags);
 
 
-/* Enables the given point of failure, with the given probability. That makes
- * it fail with the given probablity.
+/** Enables the given point of failure, with the given probability. That makes
+ * it fail with the given probability.
  *
- * - name: point of failure name.
- * - failnum: what will fiu_fail() return, must be != 0.
- * - failinfo: what will fiu_failinfo() return.
- * - flags: flags.
- * - probability: probability a fiu_fail() call will return failnum,
+ * @param name  Name of the point of failure to enable.
+ * @param failnum  What will fiu_fail() return, must be != 0.
+ * @param failinfo  What will fiu_failinfo() return.
+ * @param flags  Flags.
+ * @param probability Probability a fiu_fail() call will return failnum,
  * 	between 0 (never fail) and 1 (always fail). As a special fast case, -1
  * 	can also be used to always fail.
- * - returns: 0 if success, < 0 otherwise. */
+ * @returns  0 if success, < 0 otherwise.
+ */
 int fiu_enable_random(const char *name, int failnum, void *failinfo,
 		unsigned int flags, float probability);
 
 
-/** Type of external callback functions. They must return 0 to indicate not to
- * fail, != 0 to indicate otherwise. Can modify failnum, failinfo and flags,
- * in order to alter the values of the point of failure. */
+/** Type of external callback functions.
+ * They must return 0 to indicate not to fail, != 0 to indicate otherwise. Can
+ * modify failnum, failinfo and flags, in order to alter the values of the
+ * point of failure. */
 typedef int external_cb_t(const char *name, int *failnum, void **failinfo,
 		unsigned int *flags);
 
-/* Enables the given point of failure, leaving the decision whether to fail or
- * not to the given external function.
+/** Enables the given point of failure, leaving the decision whether to fail
+ * or not to the given external function.
  *
- * - name: point of failure name.
- * - failnum: what will fiu_fail() return, must be != 0.
- * - failinfo: what will fiu_failinfo() return.
- * - flags: flags.
- * - external_cb: function to call to determine whether fail or not. */
+ * @param name  Name of the point of failure to enable.
+ * @param failnum  What will fiu_fail() return, must be != 0.
+ * @param failinfo  What will fiu_failinfo() return.
+ * @param flags  Flags.
+ * @param external_cb  Function to call to determine whether to fail or not.
+ * @returns  0 if success, < 0 otherwise.
+ */
 int fiu_enable_external(const char *name, int failnum, void *failinfo,
 		unsigned int flags, external_cb_t *external_cb);
 
-/* Disables the given point of failure. That makes it NOT fail.
+/** Disables the given point of failure. That makes it NOT fail.
  *
- * - name: point of failure name.
- * - returns: 0 if success, < 0 otherwise. */
+ * @param name  Name of the point of failure to disable.
+ * @returns  0 if success, < 0 otherwise.
+ */
 int fiu_disable(const char *name);
 
-/* Enables remote control over a named pipe that begins with the given
- * basename. "-$PID" will be appended to it to form the final path. After the
- * process dies, the pipe will be removed. If the process forks, a new pipe
- * will be created.
+/** Enables remote control over a named pipe.
+ *
+ * The name pipe path will begin with the given basename. "-$PID" will be
+ * appended to it to form the final path. After the process dies, the pipe
+ * will be removed. If the process forks, a new pipe will be created.
+ *
+ * Once this function has been called, the fiu-ctrl utility can be used to
+ * control the points of failure externally.
  *
- * - basename: base path to use in the creation of the named pipes.
- * - returns: 0 on success, -1 on errors. */
+ * @param basename  Base path to use in the creation of the named pipes.
+ * @returns  0 on success, -1 on errors. */
 int fiu_rc_fifo(const char *basename);
 
 
diff --git a/libfiu/fiu.c b/libfiu/fiu.c
index 0ae2ec0..1a7e0a4 100644
--- a/libfiu/fiu.c
+++ b/libfiu/fiu.c
@@ -259,8 +259,8 @@ int fiu_fail(const char *name)
 
 	rec_count++;
 
-	/* we must do this before acquiring the lock and calling any
-	 * (potentially wrapped) functions */
+	/* We must do this before acquiring the lock and calling any
+	 * (potentially wrapped) functions. */
 	if (rec_count > 1) {
 		rec_count--;
 		return 0;
diff --git a/libfiu/fiu.h b/libfiu/fiu.h
index a625a37..7659b7f 100644
--- a/libfiu/fiu.h
+++ b/libfiu/fiu.h
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 
-/* libfiu - Fault Injection in Userspace
+/** @file
  *
- * This header, part of libfiu, contains the API that your project should use.
+ * This header contains the API that your project should use when defining
+ * points of failure in your real (non-testing) code.
  *
  * If you want to avoid having libfiu as a mandatory build-time dependency,
- * you should include fiu-local.h in your project, and #include it instead of
- * this.
+ * you should add fiu-local.h to your project, and \#include that instead.
  */
 
 #ifndef _FIU_H
@@ -20,25 +20,34 @@ extern "C" {
 #endif
 
 
-/* Initializes the library.
+/** Initializes the library.
  *
- * - flags: unused.
- * - returns: 0 if success, < 0 if error. */
+ * Must be called before any other library function. It is safe to invoke it
+ * more than once.
+ *
+ * @param flags  Unused.
+ * @returns  0 if success, < 0 if error.
+ */
 int fiu_init(unsigned int flags);
 
-/* Returns the failure status of the given point of failure.
+/** Returns the failure status of the given point of failure.
  *
- * - name: point of failure name.
- * - returns: the failure status (0 means it should not fail). */
+ * @param name  Point of failure name.
+ * @returns  The failure status (0 means it should not fail).
+ */
 int fiu_fail(const char *name);
 
-/* Returns the information associated with the last failure.
+/** Returns the information associated with the last failure.
  *
- * - returns: the information associated with the last fail, or NULL if there
- *      isn't one. */
+ * Please note that this function is thread-safe and thread-local, so the
+ * information returned will be for the last failure in the same thread.
+ *
+ * @returns  The information associated with the last failure, or NULL if
+ * 		there isn't one.
+ */
 void *fiu_failinfo(void);
 
-/* Performs the given action when the given point of failure fails. Mostly
+/** Performs the given action when the given point of failure fails. Mostly
  * used in the following macros. */
 #define fiu_do_on(name, action) \
         do { \
@@ -47,10 +56,10 @@ void *fiu_failinfo(void);
                 } \
         } while (0)
 
-/* Exits the program when the given point of failure fails. */
+/** Exits the program when the given point of failure fails. */
 #define fiu_exit_on(name) fiu_do_on(name, exit(EXIT_FAILURE))
 
-/* Makes the function return the given retval when the given point of failure
+/** Makes the function return the given retval when the given point of failure
  * fails. */
 #define fiu_return_on(name, retval) fiu_do_on(name, return retval)
 
@@ -60,8 +69,8 @@ void *fiu_failinfo(void);
 #endif
 
 #else
-/* fiu not enabled, this should match fiu-local.h but we don't include it
- * because it includes us assuming we're installed system-wide */
+/* These are used when fiu not enabled. They should match fiu-local.h but we
+ * don't include it to avoid a circular dependency. */
 
 #define fiu_init(flags) 0
 #define fiu_fail(name) 0
diff --git a/libfiu/libfiu.3 b/libfiu/libfiu.3
index b7e3616..32e0939 100644
--- a/libfiu/libfiu.3
+++ b/libfiu/libfiu.3
@@ -46,7 +46,10 @@ in the distribution.
 .SS CORE API
 
 To use the core API, you should
-.IR "#include <fiu.h>" .
+.I "#include <fiu.h>"
+(or
+.IR "<fiu-local.h>" ,
+see below).
 
 Because fault injection is usually a debugging/testing facility, unwanted at
 runtime, some special considerations were taken to minimize the impact of the
@@ -55,7 +58,7 @@ core API. First of all, if
 is not defined, then fiu.h will define empty stubs for all the core API,
 effectively disabling fault injection completely.
 
-Also, a special header
+Also, the special header
 .I fiu-local.h
 is shipped with libfiu. It is meant to be included in your project to avoid
 having libfiu as a mandatory build-time dependency. You can add it to your
@@ -84,7 +87,8 @@ runtime using the control API.
 .TP
 .BI "fiu_failinfo()"
 Returns the information associated with the last failure, or NULL if there
-isn't one.
+isn't one. This function is thread-aware and will only return information
+about failures in the calling thread.
 
 .TP
 .BI "fiu_do_on(" name ", " action ") [macro]"