Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible wrote: > In this case, if EXIT_FAILURE were 2 or 3 instead of 1 on some > platforms, the *documented* exit codes of the 'diff' or 'grep' > commands or other utilities would not hold any more. > > If we ever encounter a platform where EXIT_FAILURE was like this, > we want to know about it quickly, so as to avoid silly bug reports > when some GNU packages are compiled on that platform and don't work > as expected.
Sounds good. The situation I was thinking of was a system program compiled with EXIT_FAILURE being some valid value not equal to 1. If a GNU program using Gnulib calls that and then checks "exit_status == EXIT_FAILURE" then it will behave incorrectly. I guess that problem is annoying but at least it doesn't make the GNU program disagree with it's associated documentation. The situation I am thinking of seems rare enough that hopefully it should never occur. > If someone wants to create a pure POSIX test suite from the Gnulib > tests, they are welcome to do so. I would also applaud efforts if > some people were to create an interesting POSIX test suite that > is Free Software, with Gnulib bits included. But that is likely > some bigger effort, that the Linux Foundation maybe could host. > (The Open Group will not be in favour of it; AFAIU, they want to > sell their proprietary POSIX test suite for expensive money.) That would be nice, I agree. I think the Linux Standard Base has a test suite including some POSIX conformance stuff contributed by The Open Group. Probably out-of-date since, as far as I know, the LSB is no longer maintained. Collin
