Re: [Bug-gnulib] feature request: argp()

[Simon Josefsson]

James Youngman <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:26:05PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I also add a new module "sysexits", modeled after "exit", based on
>> > libc's sysexits.h that argp need.
>> 
>> I forgot the MODULES.html.sh patch, but I'm having some trouble
>> figuring out the standard status of it.  I doubt it is part of
>> ANSI/ISO C, but may be part of POSIX:2001.  How can I find out?  The
>> libc manual barely mention sysexits.h at all.
>
> You could check the online version of the POSIX standard, which by the
> way was updated - the current version is for 2003 (though the text was
> finalised in 2002).  This is available at
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm>.
>
>
> The answer, however, is that sysexits.h is included in neither the
> POSIX standard nor the Open Group Base Standard, though it is a fairly
> traditional Unix feature (I suspect it's BSD-ish).  The only exit
> values that either of these two standards (which actually have the
> same text anyway) define are EXIT_FAILURE and EXIT_SUCCESS, which of
> course are inherited from the ISO C standard.  The POSIX spec exptends
> ISO C by indicating that any value between 0000 and 0377 can be
> returned (other return values are reduced to just the low-order bits).
>
> So, sysexits.h is commonplace but not standard.

Thanks.  "Extra functions based on POSIX:2001" seems like the proper
place then:

--- MODULES.html.sh.~1.22.~     Tue Jun 10 16:15:36 2003
+++ MODULES.html.sh     Tue Jun 10 20:25:35 2003
@@ -1868,6 +1868,7 @@
   func_begin_table
   func_module argp
   func_module exitfail
+  func_module sysexits
   func_module c-stack
   func_module error
   func_module fatal

Also, the title in modules/sysexits in my last mail didn't look good
inside MODULES.html.  Here's a new one:

Description:
Exit status codes for system programs.