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authorHans Nilsson <[email protected]>2018-03-14 20:50:51 +0100
committerHans Nilsson <[email protected]>2018-03-23 10:04:33 +0100
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ssh: Doc fix
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-rw-r--r--lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_connection.xml6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_connection.xml b/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_connection.xml
index 150d46a9a2..72830de04d 100644
--- a/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_connection.xml
+++ b/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_connection.xml
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@
</func>
<func>
- <name>shell(ConnectionRef, ChannelId) -> ssh_request_status() | {error, closed}
+ <name>shell(ConnectionRef, ChannelId) -> ok | failure | {error, closed}
</name>
<fsummary>Requests that the user default shell (typically defined in
/etc/passwd in Unix systems) is to be executed at the server end.</fsummary>
@@ -440,6 +440,10 @@
<p>Is to be called by a client channel process to request that the user default
shell (typically defined in /etc/passwd in Unix systems) is executed
at the server end.</p>
+ <p>Note: the return value is <c>ok</c> instead of <c>success</c> unlike in other
+ functions in this module. This is a fault that was introduced so long ago that
+ any change would break a large number of existing software.
+ </p>
</desc>
</func>