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| -rw-r--r-- | library/std/src/process.rs | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/library/std/src/process.rs b/library/std/src/process.rs index 9cc7fc2f035..b4dab41f066 100644 --- a/library/std/src/process.rs +++ b/library/std/src/process.rs @@ -1417,6 +1417,11 @@ impl From<fs::File> for Stdio { /// /// [`status`]: Command::status /// [`wait`]: Child::wait +// +// We speak slightly loosely (here and in various other places in the stdlib docs) about `exit` +// vs `_exit`. Naming of Unix system calls is not standardised across Unices, so terminology is a +// matter of convention and tradition. For clarity we usually speak of `exit`, even when we might +// mean an underlying system call such as `_exit`. #[derive(PartialEq, Eq, Clone, Copy, Debug)] #[stable(feature = "process", since = "1.0.0")] pub struct ExitStatus(imp::ExitStatus); |