Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from David Cantrell > # on Wednesday 06 January 2010 03:48: >> Exiting with a 0 status would seem to be the least clunky solution. >> exit(0) means "Stop now and claim to have succeeded" > But you didn't succeed because something's wrong and thus on the way out > you must mention to the poor user what that might be.
Fine, but if you *don't* claim to have succeeded, then you have to expect that software that looks for failures will spot the failure and report it. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david It's my experience that neither users nor customers can articulate what it is they want, nor can they evaluate it when they see it -- Alan Cooper