From e4bae43d668ab09e07e14e3e00e5aa5da51436b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Auerswald <auerswal@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:47:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update exit status description in man page

With the options -x and -X, fping does not require all hosts to
be reachable for an exit status of 0.

This addresses a comment in issue #99 suggesting such a man page
update.
---
 doc/fping.pod | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/fping.pod b/doc/fping.pod
index ac2eb3ef..cf5aa5d3 100644
--- a/doc/fping.pod
+++ b/doc/fping.pod
@@ -274,7 +274,8 @@ B<fping website: L<http://www.fping.org>>
 
 =head1 DIAGNOSTICS
 
-Exit status is 0 if all the hosts are reachable, 1 if some hosts
+Exit status is 0 if all the hosts (or the number of hosts specified with B<-x>
+or B<-X>) are reachable, 1 if some (or too many with B<-x> or B<-X>) hosts
 were unreachable, 2 if any IP addresses were not found, 3 for invalid command
 line arguments, and 4 for a system call failure.