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| author | Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org> | 2018-09-18 23:59:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2018-11-24 07:59:58 +0100 |
| commit | 80d274454b6afa80f024277c8d2e4135595aed29 (patch) | |
| tree | a1b2a450f374875af51f44098b0ab51d47080e8f /man3 | |
| parent | 2fc546f9bfa2987c15ef4ac100fafe74d9e7322f (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-80d274454b6afa80f024277c8d2e4135595aed29.tar.gz | |
system.3: Mention that 'errno' is set on error
Corresponding system.3p already mentions that.
Tested with glibc and musl.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/system.3 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man3/system.3 b/man3/system.3 index 19a4d8c201..e31ceb4355 100644 --- a/man3/system.3 +++ b/man3/system.3 @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ 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. +the return value is \-1 and 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 |