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| author | trhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-09 21:05:18 +0000 |
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| committer | trhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-09 21:05:18 +0000 |
| commit | f543b2d6fcfa911079a9ee99d610e8da2ac6969d (patch) | |
| tree | d777b77a8247287c6b5590c102d47e6bc9ba5dbb /share/man/man8 | |
| parent | 2ead48154d28aaa1621616f1cc1dcf0143030b95 (diff) | |
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intro(8) is lacking a command status explanation, added.
PR: 36448
No objections from: ru
MFC after: 3 days
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man8')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man8/intro.8 | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man8/intro.8 b/share/man/man8/intro.8 index 1b63ef8..71333a9 100644 --- a/share/man/man8/intro.8 +++ b/share/man/man8/intro.8 @@ -65,6 +65,17 @@ The section .Ql Xr crash should be consulted to understand how to interpret system crash dumps. +.Pp +All commands set an exit status. +Its value may be tested +to see if the command completed normally. +Unless otherwise noted (rare), the value 0 signifies successful +completion of the command, while a value >0 indicates an error. +Some commands attempt to describe the nature of the failure by using +error codes defined in +.Xr sysexits 3 , +or set the status to arbitrary values >0 (typically 1), but many +such values are not described in the manual. .Sh HISTORY The .Nm |
