svn commit: r245506 - head/bin/pwait

[Eitan Adler]

On 17 January 2013 10:50, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Eh, I think bde@ has quite a bit more experience with this than you.

No doubt.

> <sysexits.h> is not part of POSIX or any other standard.  It's comments
> reference delivermail (the predecessor to sendmail).  Looking at its history,
...

Understood.  I have found value in programs which output specific
error returns instead of "1" or "0".  The specific use of sysexits
instead of each application choose their own is a nicety.

> In practice it's list of error value is limited and has not grown to handle
> new errors in over two decades (as opposed to, say, the list of errnos).

Perhaps it is best to extend it instead of deprecating it?

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Eitan Adler
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