On 9/18/18 11:59 PM, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote: > Corresponding system.3p already mentions that. > Tested with glibc and musl. Thanks for the patch, Arkadiusz. Applied. Sorry for the delay in responding... Cheers, Michael > --- > man3/system.3 | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man3/system.3 b/man3/system.3 > index 74882fa..32a4a86 100644 > --- a/man3/system.3 > +++ b/man3/system.3 > @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ 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 > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
