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Date:      Sun, 30 Jun 1996 18:12:34 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: remote make install
Message-ID:  <199606300812.SAA06100@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> > > SYSEXITS(3)               FreeBSD Programmer's Manual              SYSEXITS(3)
>> 
>> This manpage is relatively new still.  Perhaps all utilites that
>> adhere to sysexits(3) should xref it in their man pages, and the man
>> page of make should make it clear that it's the exit status of the
>> command.

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.

>Well, at least the first step in that direction would be adding something 
>to the install man page, because what it says now about errors is nearly 
>nothing.  ...

It documents the 4.4Lite behaviour of simply returning 0 for OK and 1 for
error.

Bruce



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