The C standard specifies two constants, EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE, that may
be passed to exit() to indicate successful or unsuccessful termination,
respectively. The value of status in exit(status) may be EXIT_SUCCESS,
EXIT_FAILURE, or any other value, though only the least significant 8 bits (that
is, status & 0377) shall be available to a waiting parent proces. So exit(-1)
return 255.
Use the C standard EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE to indicate the program exit
status instead of "0" or "1", respectively. In <stdlib.h> EXIT_FAILURE has the
value "1": use EXIT_FAILURE even if the program uses exit(-1), ie 255, for
consistency.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@xxxxxxxxx>
---
builtin/merge-index.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/merge-index.c b/builtin/merge-index.c
index c0383fe9df..efa7ceaa35 100644
--- a/builtin/merge-index.c
+++ b/builtin/merge-index.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static int merge_entry(int pos, const char *path)
else {
if (!quiet)
die("merge program failed");
- exit(1);
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
}
return found;
--
2.35.1
