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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-03-08 01:42:18 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-03-08 01:42:18 +0000
commit1e681b4bdd8e27a978f112811d16eb3eae6444d6 (patch)
treef1fcaa7da7cab8c6dd1dd5cee23de03c21d90ba5 /usr.bin/env
parentd4bf18fe66b25e8191119f46f47e31e86aacbcee (diff)
Make sure all possible EXIT STATUS values are listed,
none are listed multiple times, and polish the wording. Incompleteness and potential for confusion noticed by millert@. Using feedback from jmc@ and millert@.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/env')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/env/env.131
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/env/env.1 b/usr.bin/env/env.1
index 55cc707279c..5b6c4d999f2 100644
--- a/usr.bin/env/env.1
+++ b/usr.bin/env/env.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: env.1,v 1.18 2010/09/29 07:44:56 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: env.1,v 1.19 2014/03/08 01:42:17 schwarze Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" from: @(#)printenv.1 6.7 (Berkeley) 7/28/91
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 29 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 8 2014 $
.Dt ENV 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -82,28 +82,29 @@ The
utility exits with one of the following values:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It 0
-.Ar utility
-was invoked and completed successfully.
-In this case the exit code is returned by the utility itself, not
-.Nm .
-If no utility was specified, then
.Nm
-completed successfully and returned the exit code itself.
+completed successfully and, if
+.Ar utility
+was specified, it was invoked and completed successfully too.
.It 1
An invalid command line option was passed to
-.Nm .
-.It 1\(en125
+.Nm
+and
+.Ar utility
+was not invoked, or
+.Ar utility
+was invoked but failed with exit status 1.
+.It 2\(en125, 128\(en255
.Ar utility
-was invoked but failed in some way;
+was invoked but failed with this exit status;
see its manual page for more information.
-In this case the exit code is returned by the utility itself, not
-.Nm .
.It 126
.Ar utility
-was found but could not be invoked.
+was found but could not be invoked, or it was invoked but failed
+with exit status 126.
.It 127
.Ar utility
-could not be found.
+could not be found, or it was invoked but failed with exit status 127.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr execvp 3 ,