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On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> >         Use EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE for exit() and EX_* for
> >         errx().
> 
> yes :)

No.  Use EXIT_* for errx() too.  Magic error exit codes are especially
useless when a human-readable error message is printed.

Bruce



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