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

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