annotate admin/notes/exit-value @ 111566:b4dbe6c4111e

Cleanup of window coordinate positioning code. Now, text area click input events measure Y from the top of the text area, excluding the header line if any. * src/dispnew.c (buffer_posn_from_coords): Assume that X counts from the start of the text area. * src/keyboard.c (make_lispy_position): For text area clicks, record Y pixel position relative to the text area, excluding header line. Also change X and Y to Lisp_Objects, not pointers; don't return coordinate values via pointers. Pass ON_TEXT_AREA coordinate to buffer_posn_from_coords counting from the start of the text area. (Fposn_at_x_y, make_lispy_event): Callers changed. * src/w32term.c (w32_read_socket): * src/msdos.c (dos_rawgetc): * src/xterm.c (handle_one_xevent): Likewise. * src/window.c (coordinates_in_window): Change X and Y to ints rather than pointers; don't return coordinates via pointers. (struct check_window_data): Change X and Y from pointers to ints. (window_from_coordinates): Remove args WX and WY; don't return coordinates via pointers. (Fcoordinates_in_window_p, window_from_coordinates): (check_window_containing, Fwindow_at): Callers changed. (window_relative_x_coord): New function. * src/window.h (window_from_coordinates, window_relative_x_coord): Update prototypes. * src/xdisp.c (remember_mouse_glyph): Change window_from_coordinates call. Use window_relative_x_coord. (note_mouse_highlight): Change window_from_coordinates call.

ttn 2004-05-09

The exit value of a program returning to the shell on unixoid systems is
typically 0 for success, and non-0 (such as 1) for failure.  For vms it is
odd (1,3,5...) for success, even (0,2,4...) for failure.

This holds from the point of view of the "shell" (in quotes because vms has a
different dispatch model that is not explained further here).

From the point of view of the program, nowadays stdlib.h on both type of
systems provides macros `EXIT_SUCCESS' and `EXIT_FAILURE' that should DTRT.

NB: The numerical values of these macros DO NOT need to fulfill the the exit
value requirements outlined in the first paragraph!  That is the job of the
`exit' function.  Thus, this kind of construct shows misunderstanding:

   #ifdef VMS
      exit (1);
   #else
      exit (0);
   #endif

Values aside from EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE are tricky.



ttn 2004-05-12

Values aside from EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE can be used to indicate
finer gradations of failure.  If this is the only information available
to the caller, clamping such values to EXIT_FAILURE loses information.
If there are other ways to indicate the problem to the caller (such as
a message to stderr) it may be ok to clamp.  In all cases, it is the
relationship between the program and its caller that must be examined.
[Insert ZAMM quote here.]