On 17 January 2013 10:50, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Eh, I think bde@ has quite a bit more experience with this than you.
No doubt. > <sysexits.h> is not part of POSIX or any other standard. It's comments > reference delivermail (the predecessor to sendmail). Looking at its history, ... Understood. I have found value in programs which output specific error returns instead of "1" or "0". The specific use of sysexits instead of each application choose their own is a nicety. > In practice it's list of error value is limited and has not grown to handle > new errors in over two decades (as opposed to, say, the list of errnos). Perhaps it is best to extend it instead of deprecating it? -- Eitan Adler Source, Ports, Doc committer Bugmeister, Ports Security teams _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
