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`errno` is a userland concept; the kernel returns negative error numbers that libc then turns into -1 and sets errno. Thus the correct manpage is errno(3).
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OpenBSD up to 5.9 had errno(2) symlinked to intro(2), describing error codes:

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=errno&apropos=0&se...

Also, your statements about the kernel and libc are OS specific.

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