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exit.3: Use hex for the status mask 

Admittedly, the POSIX specification for exit() also uses octal.
However, 0xFF immediately indicates the lowest 8 bits to me
whereas I had to think a bit about the octal mask.

Cowritten-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ The process's parent is sent a
signal.
.PP
The value
.I "status & 0377"
.I "status & 0xFF"
is returned to the parent process as the process's exit status, and
can be collected using one of the
.BR wait (2)

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@ -38,9 +38,8 @@ exit \- cause normal process termination
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR exit ()
function causes normal process termination and the
value of \fIstatus & 0377\fP is returned to the parent
(see
function causes normal process termination and the value of \fIstatus &
0xFF\fP is returned to the parent (see
.BR wait (2)).
.PP
All functions registered with