[Guile-commits] 01/01: Clarify the manual's "Processes" section.

[Mark H. Weaver]

mhw pushed a commit to branch stable-2.2
in repository guile.

commit 8cdd3a0773930ca872a13aada7a1344f03bb382b
Author: Chris Marusich <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Oct 14 00:47:23 2018 -0700

    Clarify the manual's "Processes" section.
    
    * doc/ref/posix.texi (Processes): Use the phrase "integer status value"
    consistently, and add a cross-reference to the section of the glibc
    manual that explains what it is.
---
 doc/ref/posix.texi | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/ref/posix.texi b/doc/ref/posix.texi
index 1470e5f..95ee6a5 100644
--- a/doc/ref/posix.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/posix.texi
@@ -1749,13 +1749,14 @@ The return value is a pair containing:
 The process ID of the child process, or 0 if @code{WNOHANG} was
 specified and no process was collected.
 @item
-The integer status value.
+The integer status value (@pxref{Process Completion Status,,, libc, The
+GNU C Library Reference Manual}).
 @end enumerate
 @end deffn
 
 The following three
-functions can be used to decode the process status code returned
-by @code{waitpid}.
+functions can be used to decode the integer status value returned by
address@hidden
 
 @deffn {Scheme Procedure} status:exit-val status
 @deffnx {C Function} scm_status_exit_val (status)