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From: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Robert Watson wrote:

> Log:
>  Revert r184509: don't encourage the use of sysexits.h with err() and
>  errx(),, as there seems to be a general preference against this
>  practice.

*snip*

> 	if ((four = malloc(sizeof(struct foo))) == NULL)
> -		err(EX_OSERR, NULL);
> +		err(1, (char *)NULL);
> 	if ((six = (int *)overflow()) == NULL)
> -		errx(EX_DATAERR, "number overflowed");
> +		errx(1, "number overflowed");

Out of curiosity, why not EXIT_FAILURE instead of 1, at least in
situations where including stdlib.h is allowed?  Is it because
EXIT_FAILURE is only required to be non-zero and not necessarily 1?

Sean
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