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| author | Thien-Thi Nguyen | 2004-05-12 14:39:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Thien-Thi Nguyen | 2004-05-12 14:39:34 +0000 |
| commit | f87899ebd6ec1afeeaecefdc4ac4040740fc8c05 (patch) | |
| tree | e08174b6f4b548fdb7dfdae8205dad754d48c9c1 /admin/notes/exit-value | |
| parent | d6696bb69c690f3bc2f4be8de55352b1928d528e (diff) | |
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New entry re clamping to EXIT_FAILURE.
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diff --git a/admin/notes/exit-value b/admin/notes/exit-value index 2eb598bf495..e59bb614b9b 100644 --- a/admin/notes/exit-value +++ b/admin/notes/exit-value | |||
| @@ -21,3 +21,15 @@ value requirements outlined in the first paragraph! That is the job of the | |||
| 21 | #endif | 21 | #endif |
| 22 | 22 | ||
| 23 | Values aside from EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE are tricky. | 23 | Values aside from EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE are tricky. |
| 24 | |||
| 25 | |||
| 26 | |||
| 27 | ttn 2004-05-12 | ||
| 28 | |||
| 29 | Values aside from EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE can be used to indicate | ||
| 30 | finer gradations of failure. If this is the only information available | ||
| 31 | to the caller, clamping such values to EXIT_FAILURE loses information. | ||
| 32 | If there are other ways to indicate the problem to the caller (such as | ||
| 33 | a message to stderr) it may be ok to clamp. In all cases, it is the | ||
| 34 | relationship between the program and its caller that must be examined. | ||
| 35 | [Insert ZAMM quote here.] | ||