Manual pages: use the term "exit status"

[thirdparty/util-linux.git] / disk-utils / mkfs.8

diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.8 b/disk-utils/mkfs.8
index e8edb0f4ad7cc9713ef8b1cb682a683f1f3f2571..deb00b2bb1ca3882f0e8ef3fe82eea8610ab2a01 100644 (file)
--- a/disk-utils/mkfs.8
+++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.8
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ or a regular file that shall contain the filesystem.  The
 .I size
 argument is the number of blocks to be used for the filesystem.
 .PP
-The exit code returned by
+The exit status returned by
 .B mkfs
 is 0 on success and 1 on failure.
 .PP