flock: Change the 'exit status' man page section to make more sense

Signed-off-by: Wieland Hoffmann <themineo@gmail.com>

diff --git a/sys-utils/flock.1 b/sys-utils/flock.1
index d9f7d86e70af9e25cea7abc84b7982a78ba47182..99ae682d2847a7127371dab34c2de21adf9c04e0 100644 (file)
--- a/sys-utils/flock.1
+++ b/sys-utils/flock.1
@@ -152,11 +152,11 @@ also sets the FLOCKER env var to the right value so it doesn't run again.
 .SH "EXIT STATUS"
 The command uses
 .B sysexits.h
-return values for everything else but an options
+return values for everything, except when using either of the options
 .I \-n
 or
 .I \-w
-failures which return either the value given by the
+which report a failure to acquire the lock with a return value given by the
 .I \-E
 option, or 1 by default.
 .SH AUTHOR