The following reply was made to PR bin/153527; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Cran <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/153527: wake(8) should use sysexits.h
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:00:01 +0000

 On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:10:33 -0800
 douglas steinwand <[email protected]> wrote:
 
 > The sysexits(3) manpage in FreeBSD 8.1 still seems relevant.
 
 It is, but its use is discouraged now - see
 http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/share/man/man9/style.9 for the
 history - e.g. "Revert r184509: don't encourage the use of sysexits.h
 with err() and errx(),, as there seems to be a general preference
 against this practice."
 
 -- 
 Bruce Cran
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