[patch] coreutils/printf.c

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Sunday 01 June 2008 21:31, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Denys Vlasenko" <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
> To: <busybox at busybox.net>
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 4:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [patch] coreutils/printf.c
> 
> 
> >
> > Do not replace "return EXIT_SUCCESS;" with "return 0;" - some people
> > insist on having symbolic constant there (don't know why it's
> > so important, but why not?)
> >
> Sorry if I am saying something evident, I am a bit new there.
> 
> 0 mean what you think it mean in a certain context, sometime success,
> sometime failure.
> Having a source tree with both, this is awfull.
> 
> EXIT_SUCCESS has no doubt

I guess if someone does not know what 0 means as a return value of main(),
he'd better stay away from Unix coding just yet.

That's what makes me think that insisting on having EXIT_SUCCESSes
sprinkled through code is not very useful. But there are people
who disagree. It's not a big deal anyway.
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vda