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Manual pages: Standardize on EXIT STATUS as section title
authorMichael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Tue, 19 May 2020 12:53:21 +0000 (14:53 +0200)
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Wed, 20 May 2020 10:56:12 +0000 (12:56 +0200)
commit7e765c93dc931950f9635bae78603395f742c2f0
tree169f7bb2b49c172e71e3e59e43ed7ec78c4f15fb
parent4259cff22eb68cae0ebf7f6d33ee5cbb21d6c5fe
Manual pages: Standardize on EXIT STATUS as section title

There is quite some value (in terms of readability and user
expectations) if consistent names are used for the sections
within manual pages. This patch is one of a series to bring
about this consistency.

Currently we have EXIT STATUS (18), EXIT CODES (3), RETURN CODE (7),
RETURN CODES (1), or RETURN VALUE (4 instances in pages that document
commands, rather than functions).

Let's standardize on the EXIT STATUS (which is also what is
suggested in man-pages(7), and is the POSIX terminology).

A subsequent patch will clean up corresponding miswordings in
manual page text.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 files changed:
disk-utils/fsck.minix.8
disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.8
disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8
misc-utils/blkid.8
misc-utils/kill.1
misc-utils/logger.1
misc-utils/lsblk.8
sys-utils/chcpu.8
sys-utils/chmem.8
sys-utils/fstrim.8
sys-utils/losetup.8
sys-utils/mount.8
sys-utils/switch_root.8
sys-utils/zramctl.8