From 9f8c4bc65a903967e8bb525ea70222fdf0031629 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:04:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] man/systemd-notify: add a note on return value

The options `--booted` is compared with the command `systemctl
is-system-running`, but the return values have differnt meanings and it
is not a drop-in.
---
 man/systemd-notify.xml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/systemd-notify.xml b/man/systemd-notify.xml
index b64610dbba..0e0cc6cdd0 100644
--- a/man/systemd-notify.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-notify.xml
@@ -179,8 +179,8 @@
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_booted</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. An
         alternate way to check for this state is to call
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> with
-        the <command>is-system-running</command> command. It will return <literal>offline</literal> if the
-        system was not booted with systemd.  </para></listitem>
+        the <command>is-system-running</command> command. It will output <literal>offline</literal> if the
+        system was not booted with systemd, though the return value has a different meaning.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>