Date: 25 Jul 1998 22:41:19 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sysexits Message-ID: <xzpd8atfyts.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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The style(9) man page recommends the use of values defined in <sysexits.h> to indicate failure conditions. However, there is no predefined value for what is probably the most common error condition, at least in some applications - a failed malloc(), calloc() or realloc(). I therefore suggest adding the constant EX_NOMEM, with the value 79, to /usr/include/sysexits.h, and bumping EX__MAX to 79 (as well as updating the sysexits(3) man page, of course). Unless somebody strenuously objects, I'll commit the changes to -current in a couple of days. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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