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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2017-04-11 17:01:12 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2017-04-11 17:01:12 +0000
commite9a45751333aa456f12d73723043f2f0604a9177 (patch)
tree8a5e04d1ea9383833663efb6dbbfc12f44b64ee2
parent12d6b2c35787f12789a369a8ce942e3790f14f31 (diff)
shorten introductory sentence and make deprecation clearer;
disgussed with deraadt@
-rw-r--r--share/man/man3/sysexits.310
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man3/sysexits.3 b/share/man/man3/sysexits.3
index c14df27cc1f..eace75dc25f 100644
--- a/share/man/man3/sysexits.3
+++ b/share/man/man3/sysexits.3
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: sysexits.3,v 1.12 2015/12/30 16:41:52 tedu Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sysexits.3,v 1.13 2017/04/11 17:01:11 schwarze Exp $
.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man3/sysexits.3,v 1.4.2.1 1999/08/29 16:45:41 peter Exp $
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 30 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 11 2017 $
.Dt SYSEXITS 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -37,10 +37,8 @@
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sysexits.h
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-Some programs use defined error codes to distinguish between possible errors.
-However, most programs in
-.Ox
-do not.
+A few programs exit with the following non-portable error codes.
+Do not use them.
.Pp
The successful exit is always indicated by a status of 0, or
.Dv EX_OK .