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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-04-12 07:47:11 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-04-12 07:47:11 +0000
commitce1f8e6ecd6f67d16bf81774694f84dd27059ebd (patch)
tree98108347c655cb02ebd48aa4c7141f51f2135901 /doc
parent7e17831f0a03acc9a92dcc73ed525ab2e61e706f (diff)
downloadcoreutils-ce1f8e6ecd6f67d16bf81774694f84dd27059ebd.tar.xz
(expr invocation): expr exit status is 3 only for
internal errors now; 2 is also for invalid values in expressions.
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-rw-r--r--doc/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 98a925f4c..51de34ac4 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-04-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): expr exit status is 3 only for
+ internal errors now; 2 is also for invalid values in expressions.
+
2006-04-09 Ori Avtalion <oavtal@bezeqint.net>
* coreutils.texi (Top): Add 'hostid' to System context menu line.
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 177f12e41..a91b9e7d5 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -10277,8 +10277,8 @@ Exit status:
@display
0 if the expression is neither null nor 0,
1 if the expression is null or 0,
-2 if the expression is syntactically invalid,
-3 if an error occurred.
+2 if the expression is invalid,
+3 if an internal error occurred (e.g., arithmetic overflow).
@end display
@menu