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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-09-09 07:22:39 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-09-09 07:22:39 +0000
commit456e9ebf40a66cc20f4da77dbd097479607938d9 (patch)
tree55db87e349ee6e88aaa828ebfe6899a6f9e90fdd /share/man/man3
parente755761ebc698ac2b58246333fd256065a774e5c (diff)
style(9) does not recommend sysexits, so don;t claim it does;
also swap the style Xr for _exit(2); prodded by two PRs from FreeBSD, 127219 and 127220, submitted by Bruce Cran, though we've taken the opposite fix; help/ok otto
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man3/sysexits.3 b/share/man/man3/sysexits.3
index 94f2f9aa9ef..58ff8ba7341 100644
--- a/share/man/man3/sysexits.3
+++ b/share/man/man3/sysexits.3
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
.\" (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 1.7 2007/05/31 19:19:48 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sysexits.3,v 1.8 2008/09/09 07:22:38 jmc Exp $
.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man3/sysexits.3,v 1.4.2.1 1999/08/29 16:45:41 peter Exp $
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 9 2008 $
.Dt SYSEXITS 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -35,9 +35,7 @@
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sysexits.h>
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-According to
-.Xr style 9 ,
-it is not good practice to call
+It is not good practice to call
.Xr exit 3
with arbitrary values to indicate a failure condition when ending a program.
Instead, the pre-defined exit codes from
@@ -119,8 +117,8 @@ Something was found in an unconfigured or misconfigured state.
The numerical values corresponding to the symbolical ones are given in
parentheses for easy reference.
.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr exit 3 ,
-.Xr style 9
+.Xr _exit 2 ,
+.Xr exit 3
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm