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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-03-08 01:42:18 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-03-08 01:42:18 +0000 |
commit | 1e681b4bdd8e27a978f112811d16eb3eae6444d6 (patch) | |
tree | f1fcaa7da7cab8c6dd1dd5cee23de03c21d90ba5 /usr.bin/env | |
parent | d4bf18fe66b25e8191119f46f47e31e86aacbcee (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.1 | 31 |
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 , |