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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`::