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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446294
--- Comment #16 from Jim Meyering meyering@redhat.com 2008-10-13 15:08:53 EDT --- Greg,
The man page should be updated, since it is generated from the output of ls --help, and since the patch updated ls's usage function, maybe your man page is out of date:
$ ./ls --help|tail -8 Exit status: 0 if OK, 1 if minor problems (e.g., failure to access a file or directory not specified as a command line argument 2 if serious trouble (e.g., memory exhausted, invalid option or failure to access a file or directory specified as a command line argument).
so you should definitely have the right content. Hmm... but looking at the generated man page, I saw ugly formatting. So I've just checked in another change to fix that. Here's what I see now:
$ nroff -man man/ls.1|grep -B1 -A7 'if OK' Exit status: 0 if OK,
1 if minor problems (e.g., failure to access a file or directory not specified as a command line argument,
2 if serious trouble (e.g., memory exhausted, invalid option or failure to access a file or directory specified as a command line argument).