Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:57:21 +0100 From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: danger@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, brueffer@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re[2]: svn commit: r186737 - head/sbin/geom/class/virstor Message-ID: <1289663263.20090104185721@rulez.sk> In-Reply-To: <20090105.025058.119952164.hrs@allbsd.org> References: <200901041541.n04Ff1Oh060753@svn.freebsd.org> <20090104155832.GA1257@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <287359450.20090104174842@rulez.sk> <20090105.025058.119952164.hrs@allbsd.org>
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Hello Hiroki, Sunday, January 4, 2009, 6:50:58 PM, you wrote: > Daniel Gerzo <danger@freebsd.org> wrote > in <287359450.20090104174842@rulez.sk>: da>> Hello Christian, da>> da>> Sunday, January 4, 2009, 4:58:32 PM, you wrote: da>> da>> > While using .Ex is good, collapsing EXIT STATUS into DIAGNOSTICS is = not. da>> > EXIT STATUS is a standard section in our manpages and it's orthogona= l to da>> > DIAGNOSTICS. da>> da>> I am fine to revert this part, however I have trimmed this section da>> just because I didn't see it listed in the PAGE STRUCTURE DOMAIN da>> section of the mdoc(7) manual page. da>> da>> Interestingly, it lists the DIAGNOSTICS section and explicitly da>> says that .Ex macro should be used there. > Is using .Ex macro really correct?. When geom(1) fails the exit > status will be 1, not >0. While many commands whose manual page says > so return 1 on an error actually (especially when it is in POSIX), > the two are not the same at least. I thought that 1 > 0 ... (?) --=20 Best regards, Daniel mailto:danger@FreeBSD.org
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