Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20250111031926.AGltefav@steffen%sdaoden.eu>: |Jim Knoble wrote in | <06004671-E946-4462-9076-5C11D5D46E40@xxxxxxxxx>: ||> On Jan 10, 2025, at 11:33, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ||> Fyi there is the >35 years old BSD sysexits.h that unfortunately ||> did not become standardized, but is widely available nonetheless. || ||If you mean [this sysexits][*], that doesn't seem great for several \ ||reasons: ... |I recalled something, and it could be the manual change was around |the standard discussion even: ... Ah, and no earlier than 2015 it was changed to -It is not good practice to call -.Xr exit 3 -with arbitrary values to indicate a failure condition when ending a program. -Instead, the pre-defined exit codes from -.Nm -should be used, so the caller of the process can get a rough -estimation about the failure class without looking up the source code. I totally agree with the pre-2015 text. It it true. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) | |In Fall and Winter, feel "The Dropbear Bard"s pint(er). | |The banded bear |without a care, |Banged on himself for e'er and e'er | |Farewell, dear collar bear _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
