Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this patch acceptable? Most platforms already use 1 for EXIT_FAILURE. It > fixes what are otherwise false negatives in the M4 testsuite. It also makes > it > easier to use GNU applications with xargs (since POSIX requires xargs to > behave > differently when apps exit with 255 as compared with any other value) - ie. I > consider NSK's definition to be a bug. stdlib_.h is currently built > unconditionally, so I didn't have to modify the .m4 files. > > And I don't know why Matthew's posts seem to be dropped from bug-gnulib, but > show up on m4-discuss: > http://www.nabble.com/GNU-M4-1.4.8b-released-%28beta-release%29- > tf3284454.html#a9397135 > > 2007-03-09 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * lib/stdlib_.h (EXIT_FAILURE): GNU code expects this to be 1, in > spite of platforms like Tandem/NSK that define it to -1.
This if fine with me. Coreutils had similar code that I removed not too long ago.