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diff --git a/doc/textutils.texi b/doc/textutils.texi
index 432d636394bbf85e23d3b61371eb5362c37c25d2..136ecdc496bbbced0236ede2cc42669a84181ced 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/textutils.texi
+++ b/doc/textutils.texi
@@ -1695,6 +1695,7 @@ mode:
 @cindex checking for sortedness
 Check whether the given files are already sorted: if they are not all
 sorted, print an error message and exit with a status of 1.
+Otherwise, exit successfully.
 
 @item -m
 @opindex -m
@@ -1728,6 +1729,8 @@ input line length or restrictions on bytes allowed within lines.  In
 addition, if the final byte of an input file is not a newline, GNU
 @code{sort} silently supplies one.
 
+Upon any error @code{sort} exits with status of @samp{2}.
+
 @vindex TMPDIR
 If the environment variable @code{TMPDIR} is set, @code{sort} uses its
 value as the directory for temporary files instead of @file{/tmp}.  The