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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2018-11-24 08:00:34 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2018-11-24 08:00:34 +0100
commit0cb0dd1c5d303ac0212d34ff947d921f70370f66 (patch)
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system.3: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man3/system.34
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man3/system.3 b/man3/system.3
index e31ceb4355..58efd07472 100644
--- a/man3/system.3
+++ b/man3/system.3
@@ -86,7 +86,9 @@ or 0 if no shell is available.
.IP *
If a child process could not be created,
or its status could not be retrieved,
-the return value is \-1 and errno is set to indicate the error.
+the return value is \-1 and
+.I errno
+is set to indicate the error.
.IP *
If a shell could not be executed in the child process,
then the return value is as though the child shell terminated by calling