On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Bob Proulx wrote: >In general there are many possible ways for a program to fail. >Personally I believe that trying to enumerate all possible failures is >not a good way to do things because it is never good to try to >enumerate an unbounded set.
True, but perhaps a standard and well-known list can also be useful. sysexits.h on my glibc system tries to capture some common failures modes. I agree with the comments about OS diversity and the lack of reliable results, so I'm not suggesting converting all of coreutils :) Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
