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Date:      Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:16:37 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: truncate(1) implementation details
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007041514250.15653-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <904.962613305@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>

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On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> >         Use EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE for exit() and EX_* for
> >         errx().
> 
> yes :)

No.  Use EXIT_* for errx() too.  Magic error exit codes are especially
useless when a human-readable error message is printed.

Bruce



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