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revision 1.1.2.1 by miles, Tue May 11 02:26:36 2004 UTC revision 1.1.2.2 by miles, Tue Jul 6 09:14:19 2004 UTC
# Line 21  value requirements outlined in the first Line 21  value requirements outlined in the first
21     #endif     #endif
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23  Values aside from EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE are tricky.  Values aside from EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE are tricky.
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27    ttn 2004-05-12
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29    Values aside from EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE can be used to indicate
30    finer gradations of failure.  If this is the only information available
31    to the caller, clamping such values to EXIT_FAILURE loses information.
32    If there are other ways to indicate the problem to the caller (such as
33    a message to stderr) it may be ok to clamp.  In all cases, it is the
34    relationship between the program and its caller that must be examined.
35    [Insert ZAMM quote here.]

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