Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:50:58 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: danger@FreeBSD.org Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, brueffer@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r186737 - head/sbin/geom/class/virstor Message-ID: <20090105.025058.119952164.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <287359450.20090104174842@rulez.sk> References: <200901041541.n04Ff1Oh060753@svn.freebsd.org> <20090104155832.GA1257@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <287359450.20090104174842@rulez.sk>
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----Security_Multipart(Mon_Jan__5_02_50_58_2009_272)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 orthogonal 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. -- | Hiroki SATO ----Security_Multipart(Mon_Jan__5_02_50_58_2009_272)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAklg9wIACgkQTyzT2CeTzy1sHgCfd9qgbE4SwupjlseZtqv/+VOf Ko4An3sUaF9untAygCpryRhsAdPq89v4 =8V/4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Mon_Jan__5_02_50_58_2009_272)----
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