Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 18:12:34 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: remote make install Message-ID: <199606300812.SAA06100@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > > SYSEXITS(3) FreeBSD Programmer's Manual SYSEXITS(3) >> >> This manpage is relatively new still. Perhaps all utilites that >> adhere to sysexits(3) should xref it in their man pages, and the man >> page of make should make it clear that it's the exit status of the >> command. Perhaps no utilities should use sysexits.h. It seems to be deprecated in 4.4Lite. In all files in /usr/*bin and /usr/libexec, it is only used in rmail, sccs and mail.local. >Well, at least the first step in that direction would be adding something >to the install man page, because what it says now about errors is nearly >nothing. ... It documents the 4.4Lite behaviour of simply returning 0 for OK and 1 for error. Bruce
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