On 16 January 2013 21:25, Bruce Evans <b...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > This uses the sysexits mistake. style(9) was fixed to not give an example > of this mistake. Before this, sysexits was used a whole once in pwait(1) > (for EX_USAGE) in usage(). EX_USAGE happens to be 64. As usual when the > mistake is used, this is useless for humans (the usage message gives more > info) and unusable for programs, especially since it is undocmented > (pwait(1)'s man page just says ">0 if an error occurs". It doesn't even > use '.Std' for this, but hard-codes it.
IMHO using sysexits gives more signal than using a binary 0 or 1. It is a mistake to have changed style(9) to avoid using sysexits. Instead the man page should detail the specific error that occurs directly, or by reference to sysexit. -- Eitan Adler Source, Ports, Doc committer Bugmeister, Ports Security teams _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
