From: Jason McIntyre <jmc@kerhand.co.uk>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: EXIT STATUS for section 6
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:28:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100903192831.GB18815@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100903162905.GF6084@danbala.tuwien.ac.at>
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 06:29:05PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 01:57:19PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> > the templates say EXIT STATUS is for sections 1 and 8. the descriptions
> > of EXIT STATUS say it is for sections 1, 6, and 8. which is it?
>
> Section 6 are games, so they could have an EXIT STATUS.
>
could have, yeah. but don't.
> > openbsd has no exit status info in any of its section 6 pages. ok?
>
> Well, I thought you're only introducing EXIT STATUS in the OpenBSD man
> pages? :)
>
yeah. but i downcased EXIT STATUS - i meant none of the section 6pages
have any info about what they return.
> Anyway, i don't see any EXIT STATUS in man6/* on NetBSD either.
>
> I think we should allow it for section 6 as well, but I don't care
> much either way.
right, so which way do we fall. section 6 ok or not? i don't care.
jmc
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2010-09-03 12:57 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-09-03 16:29 ` Thomas Klausner
2010-09-03 19:28 ` Jason McIntyre [this message]
2010-09-03 22:42 ` Ingo Schwarze
2010-09-04 6:52 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-09-04 17:22 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
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