# HG changeset patch
# User Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
# Date 1084372774 0
# Node ID dc9bd6dd0d8da7091daa7205b3e5eb9224c8ae84
# Parent  fe582ae1003e7ac64c5b3d29c2f82168be9fe8e9
New entry re clamping to EXIT_FAILURE.

diff -r fe582ae1003e -r dc9bd6dd0d8d admin/notes/exit-value
--- a/admin/notes/exit-value	Wed May 12 11:03:59 2004 +0000
+++ b/admin/notes/exit-value	Wed May 12 14:39:34 2004 +0000
@@ -21,3 +21,15 @@
    #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.]