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| @@ -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.] | ||