Return code from system()

[Oliver Elphick]

According to the man page for system(), it should return the return code of
the command run, or else -1 or 127.

For me it is returning RC * 256: that is, if the return code is 1, system()
returns 256; if 2, 512 and so on.

Code fragment:

        char *s = "...";
        int j = system((const char *) s);

dpkg -s libc5:

        Version: 5.4.20-1

Is this a fault in documentation, or in the libc package? Is it unique to me?
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Oliver Elphick                                [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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