[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/admin/notes/exit-value [lexbind]

[Miles Bader]

Index: emacs/admin/notes/exit-value
diff -c emacs/admin/notes/exit-value:1.1.2.1 
emacs/admin/notes/exit-value:1.1.2.2
*** emacs/admin/notes/exit-value:1.1.2.1        Tue May 11 02:26:36 2004
--- emacs/admin/notes/exit-value        Tue Jul  6 09:14:19 2004
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     #endif
  
  Values aside from EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE are tricky.
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+ 
+ ttn 2004-05-12
+ 
+ Values aside from EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE can be used to indicate
+ finer gradations of failure.  If this is the only information available
+ to the caller, clamping such values to EXIT_FAILURE loses information.
+ If there are other ways to indicate the problem to the caller (such as
+ a message to stderr) it may be ok to clamp.  In all cases, it is the
+ relationship between the program and its caller that must be examined.
+ [Insert ZAMM quote here.]