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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Abort powerd when no cpufreq(4) support is found
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On Apr 9, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Robert Millan wrote:

> Hi Nate,
>=20
> El 9 d=92abril de 2012 18:06, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> ha escrit:
>> The message is fine, but I think an error code of 0 is wrong. Powerd =
didn't start, whereas 0 means the daemon launched successfully.
>=20
> In that case, may I suggest that we return one of the error codes
> recommended by sysexists(3)?  EX_UNAVAILABLE seems close enough to the
> reason we're aborting.

Fine by me. The rc framework or user should be the one to interpret the =
error code and realize that it's ok that it's not running (not =
supported).

-Nate=