Benno wrote: > Come on Eric,
EriK, like the viking. > you know the Unix deal. Exit code 0 is always success > with 1->255 being error codes. The doc could probably be better written > as: > > >> 0 (success) System is on mains power > >> 1 (error) System is not on mains power > >> 255 (error) Power status could not be determined Ok, so its a documentation bug. > Of course libc is full of this stuff, I have no problem with sucess being 0 and error being not 0. I do have a problem with true being 0. > strcmp() returns 0 (false) if the strings match. Yeah, that was always a bit on the nose, but it was done so that strcmp could return less than, zero or greater than. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "I have never met anyone who can do Scheme, Haskell, and C pointers who can't pick up Java in two days, and create better Java code than people with five years of experience in Java." -- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
