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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2008-10-12 07:34:21 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2008-10-12 07:53:23 +0200
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popen.3: wfix: rework sentence describing 'type' argument
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man3/popen.3 b/man3/popen.3
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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
.\" with close-on-exec set; probably this will be in glibc 2.9,
.\" and needs to be documented.
.\"
-.TH POPEN 3 2008-08-29 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH POPEN 3 2008-10-10 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
popen, pclose \- process I/O
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ using the
flag; interpretation, if any, is performed by the shell.
The
.I type
-argument is a pointer to a null-terminated string which must be either "r"
-for reading or "w" for writing.
+argument is a pointer to a null-terminated string which must contain
+either the letter \(aqr\(aq for reading or the letter \(aqw\(aq for writing.
.PP
The return value from
.BR popen ()