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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-12 07:34:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-12 07:53:23 +0200 |
| commit | 28ddfa90acbe0b1998e4e28a42caccfa2e73e5e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 90b83c9cd175bcfdc04994b43f4350812e02b296 /man3 | |
| parent | e008cdda60ec72d783bcc62b5d29363326f93c20 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-28ddfa90acbe0b1998e4e28a42caccfa2e73e5e3.tar.gz | |
popen.3: wfix: rework sentence describing 'type' argument
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/popen.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man3/popen.3 b/man3/popen.3 index ce9664cf3c..3d75efe7a4 100644 --- a/man3/popen.3 +++ b/man3/popen.3 @@ -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 () |