The manual pages currently use a multitude of terms--"exit code",
"error code", "return code", "exit code", and so on--when what
is always meant is "exit status" (the POSIX term). This patch fixes
as many of these erroneous terms as I could find.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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>
Using double quotes in .SH lines containing multiple words is unneeded,
and in any case is not consistently done in the util-linux manual pages,
where double quotes are used in only around half of the cases.
(This usage was long ago elminated in the man-pages project, with
no ill effects reported to date.)
Remove these quotes, so that .SH lines are more uniform, in preparation
for some (more easily) scripted doiscovery of consistency problems in
(and possibly global fixes to) the manual pages.
Other than stripping the double quotes, this patch makes no changes to
the content of the manual pages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
As per the convention shown in Documentation/howto-man-page.txt.
Also make a few other tiny adjustments along the way.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
The standard format is to seperate each entry with a comma, and
for each one to be on a line by itself. Most util-linux pages
follow this, but a few do not.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Use dates without the day, use the full month name, put "util-linux" in
the lower left corner, and "User Commands" or "System Administration"
at the top center.
Also improve here and there the one-line program description.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Sébastien Helleu
Benno Schulenberg
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Mike Frysinger
Sami Kerola
Karel Zak
Peter Breitenlohner