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author | Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> | 2018-10-14 00:47:23 -0700 |
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committer | Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> | 2018-10-14 17:57:50 -0400 |
commit | 8cdd3a0773930ca872a13aada7a1344f03bb382b (patch) | |
tree | 97f1b81b176c03e89ff450182bc8af06411bfda5 | |
parent | 1990aa916382d0afcebd5315a6d6f555949ff654 (diff) | |
download | guile-8cdd3a0773930ca872a13aada7a1344f03bb382b.tar.gz |
Clarify the manual's "Processes" section.
* doc/ref/posix.texi (Processes): Use the phrase "integer status value"
consistently, and add a cross-reference to the section of the glibc
manual that explains what it is.
-rw-r--r-- | doc/ref/posix.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ref/posix.texi b/doc/ref/posix.texi index 1470e5f36..95ee6a501 100644 --- a/doc/ref/posix.texi +++ b/doc/ref/posix.texi @@ -1749,13 +1749,14 @@ The return value is a pair containing: The process ID of the child process, or 0 if @code{WNOHANG} was specified and no process was collected. @item -The integer status value. +The integer status value (@pxref{Process Completion Status,,, libc, The +GNU C Library Reference Manual}). @end enumerate @end deffn The following three -functions can be used to decode the process status code returned -by @code{waitpid}. +functions can be used to decode the integer status value returned by +@code{waitpid}. @deffn {Scheme Procedure} status:exit-val status @deffnx {C Function} scm_status_exit_val (status) |