diff --git a/man3/scandir.3 b/man3/scandir.3
index b7986d339..264ecef0e 100644
--- a/man3/scandir.3
+++ b/man3/scandir.3
@@ -302,15 +302,17 @@ main(void)
     int n;
 
     n = scandir(".", &namelist, NULL, alphasort);
-    if (n < 0)
+    if (n == -1) {
         perror("scandir");
-    else {
-        while (n\-\-) {
-            printf("%s\en", namelist[n]\->d_name);
-            free(namelist[n]);
-        }
-        free(namelist);
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
     }
+
+    while (n\-\-) {
+        printf("%s\en", namelist[n]\->d_name);
+        free(namelist[n]);
+    }
+    free(namelist);
+
     exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
 }
 .fi