From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:42:41 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Update comment.
X-Git-Tag: v0.1~7029
X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aaca8e8ecf3420607eaf117a557e459f7836371f;p=gnulib.git

Update comment.
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 13a3f544d..858081010 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-09-18  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+	* gnulib-tool (func_exit): Update comment.
+
 2008-09-18  Simon Josefsson  <simon@josefsson.org>
 
 	* modules/getaddrinfo (Depends-on): Remove strdup, this module
diff --git a/gnulib-tool b/gnulib-tool
index 8c621c3f1..58accbad4 100755
--- a/gnulib-tool
+++ b/gnulib-tool
@@ -262,7 +262,9 @@ func_emit_copyright_notice ()
 }
 
 # func_exit STATUS
-# exit with status
+# exits with a given status.
+# This function needs to be used, rather than 'exit', when a 'trap' handler is
+# in effect that refers to $?.
 func_exit ()
 {
   (exit $1); exit $1