From: Wieland Hoffmann <themineo@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:06:32 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: flock: Change the 'exit status' man page section to make more sense
X-Git-Tag: v2.25-rc1~626
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3523ca7da47b10088a396595580de8b27f3a7082;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

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

Signed-off-by: Wieland Hoffmann <themineo@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/flock.1 b/sys-utils/flock.1
index d9f7d86e70..99ae682d28 100644
--- 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