From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 1 11:35:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA22379 for current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 11:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA22371 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 11:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA06672; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:35:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:35:34 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9607011835.AA06672@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bruce Evans Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: remote make install In-Reply-To: <199606300812.SAA06100@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199606300812.SAA06100@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Perhaps no utilities should use sysexits.h. It seems to be deprecated in > 4.4Lite. In all files in /usr/*bin and /usr/libexec, it is only used in > rmail, sccs and mail.local. I think you have this the wrong way around. was originally introduced by sendmail(8) as a way for it to interpret the success/failure of its mailer programs. We have significantly extended this usage to other programs not being invoked by sendmail, because it can use useful to determine what happened to a program by examining its exit status. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant