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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-01-14 08:01:27 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-01-14 08:01:27 -0800
commit750a6cacf49dd57a4b4891ffdbd63191180273da (patch)
tree43d467def1e540b1b9902d5ef54f1de578c5aaf9 /Documentation/technical
parentMerge branch 'jn/xml-depends-on-asciidoc-conf' into maint (diff)
parentrun-command: encode signal death as a positive integer (diff)
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Merge branch 'jk/unify-exit-code-by-receiving-signal' into maint
* jk/unify-exit-code-by-receiving-signal: run-command: encode signal death as a positive integer
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
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@@ -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`::