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Diffstat (limited to 'man3/system.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/system.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man3/system.3 b/man3/system.3 index 5f9fb55843..ca8de84ae7 100644 --- a/man3/system.3 +++ b/man3/system.3 @@ -61,23 +61,23 @@ returns a status indicating whether a shell is available on the system. The return value of .BR system () is one of the following: -.IP * 3 +.IP \(bu 3 If .I command is NULL, then a nonzero value if a shell is available, or 0 if no shell is available. -.IP * +.IP \(bu If a child process could not be created, or its status could not be retrieved, the return value is \-1 and .I errno is set to indicate the error. -.IP * +.IP \(bu If a shell could not be executed in the child process, then the return value is as though the child shell terminated by calling .BR _exit (2) with the status 127. -.IP * +.IP \(bu If all system calls succeed, then the return value is the termination status of the child shell used to execute |