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Re: Force EXIT_FAILURE to 1
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Force EXIT_FAILURE to 1 |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:25:54 +0100 |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is this patch acceptable? Most platforms already use 1 for EXIT_FAILURE. It
> fixes what are otherwise false negatives in the M4 testsuite. It also makes
> it
> easier to use GNU applications with xargs (since POSIX requires xargs to
> behave
> differently when apps exit with 255 as compared with any other value) - ie. I
> consider NSK's definition to be a bug. stdlib_.h is currently built
> unconditionally, so I didn't have to modify the .m4 files.
>
> And I don't know why Matthew's posts seem to be dropped from bug-gnulib, but
> show up on m4-discuss:
> http://www.nabble.com/GNU-M4-1.4.8b-released-%28beta-release%29-
> tf3284454.html#a9397135
>
> 2007-03-09 Eric Blake <address@hidden>
>
> * lib/stdlib_.h (EXIT_FAILURE): GNU code expects this to be 1, in
> spite of platforms like Tandem/NSK that define it to -1.
This if fine with me.
Coreutils had similar code that I removed not too long ago.