From: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:04:53 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: man/systemd-notify: add a note on return value
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man/systemd-notify: add a note on return value

The options `--booted` is compared with the command `systemctl
is-system-running`, but the return values have differnt meanings and it
is not a drop-in.
---

diff --git a/man/systemd-notify.xml b/man/systemd-notify.xml
index b64610dbba3..0e0cc6cdd09 100644
--- a/man/systemd-notify.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-notify.xml
@@ -179,8 +179,8 @@
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_booted</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. An
         alternate way to check for this state is to call
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> with
-        the <command>is-system-running</command> command. It will return <literal>offline</literal> if the
-        system was not booted with systemd.  </para></listitem>
+        the <command>is-system-running</command> command. It will output <literal>offline</literal> if the
+        system was not booted with systemd, though the return value has a different meaning.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
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