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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-01-12 06:34:32 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-01-12 06:34:32 +0400 |
| commit | edb6ad5b0aa7152dc230c0e75f14fb41b8302db4 (patch) | |
| tree | 4171bb3c75d9fa06a9f053a276869c64ccf302c3 /Documentation/technical | |
| parent | c566ea13fd25be8a7c20bdf3644d1ebe3f65b690 (diff) | |
| parent | 709ca730f8e093005cc882bfb86c0ca9c83d345b (diff) | |
Merge branch 'jk/unify-exit-code-by-receiving-signal'
The internal logic had to deal with two representations of a death
of a child process by a signal.
* jk/unify-exit-code-by-receiving-signal:
run-command: encode signal death as a positive integer
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt index f18b4f4817..5d7d7f2d32 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt @@ -55,10 +55,8 @@ The functions above do the following: non-zero. . If the program terminated due to a signal, then the return value is the - signal number - 128, ie. it is negative and so indicates an unusual - condition; a diagnostic is printed. This return value can be passed to - exit(2), which will report the same code to the parent process that a - POSIX shell's $? would report for a program that died from the signal. + signal number + 128, ie. the same value that a POSIX shell's $? would + report. A diagnostic is printed. `start_async`:: |