From 544747a6a68495fda612e00b99e8f12974a7b7ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:43:43 +0000
Subject: document that exit() -> wait() only returns low bits

---
 lib/libc/sys/_exit.2 | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib/libc/sys/_exit.2')

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/_exit.2 b/lib/libc/sys/_exit.2
index 78902b87c66..9be387423ba 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/_exit.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/_exit.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: _exit.2,v 1.10 2000/10/18 05:12:08 aaron Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: _exit.2,v 1.11 2001/03/08 20:43:42 deraadt Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: _exit.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:31:34 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ signal, it is notified of the calling process's termination and
 .Fa status
 is set as defined by
 .Xr wait 2 .
+(Note that typically only the lower 8 bits of
+.Fa status
+is passed on to the parent, thus negative values have less meaning.)
 .It
 The parent process ID of all of the calling process's existing child
 processes are set to 1; the initialization process (see the
@@ -102,6 +105,7 @@ can never return.
 .Xr fork 2 ,
 .Xr intro 2 ,
 .Xr sigaction 2 ,
+.Xr sysexits 3 ,
 .Xr wait 2 ,
 .Xr exit 3
 .Sh STANDARDS
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