From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 13:55:52 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: flock: document exit status of flock in man page
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flock: document exit status of flock in man page

The man page did not indicate that the exit status of flock
is actually that of the child command, when one is run.
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diff --git a/sys-utils/flock.1 b/sys-utils/flock.1
index 99ae682d28..c245eda5f3 100644
--- a/sys-utils/flock.1
+++ b/sys-utils/flock.1
@@ -159,6 +159,9 @@ or
 which report a failure to acquire the lock with a return value given by the
 .I \-E
 option, or 1 by default.
+.PP
+When using the <command> variant, and executing the child worked, then
+the exit status is that of the child command.
 .SH AUTHOR
 .UR hpa@zytor.com
 H. Peter Anvin