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diff --git a/man3/system.3 b/man3/system.3
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--- 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