Martin Kraemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:03:44PM -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote:
> > [...]to be inconsistent. For example, if I start Apache2 with a -h option,
> > it displays the help screen and then calls destroy_and_exit_process()
> > with an exit code of 1.
> > [...] Is there any reason why we can't switch the -v, -V,
> > -l, -L options to exit with a 1 instead of a 0 like the -h option?
>
> Yes. "The unix philosophy".
> You are absolutely right: it IS inconsistent, and should be fixed.
> But rather than changing all exit codes to 1, I would prefer to see
> all these exit codes being changed to EX_OK:
> #define EX_OK 0 /* successful termination */
In order to hold the console open for Netware, how about
define EX_OK 0
ifdef netware
define EX_DISPLAY_OK 1
else
define EX_DISPLAY_OK EX_OK
endif
Stuff like httpd -V would use EX_DISPLAY_OK as the exit status.
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Jeff Trawick | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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