On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:35:47PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > But now I'm wondering if there could be a use case of allowing the > scripts to unconditionally stop reportbug, for example using a > "special" exit code (140 f.e.) .
I'm generally opposed to this. There are no use cases that I can think of, and a poorly-written bug script can basically prevent anyone but the most advanced users from reporting bugs. *However*, if you do decide to implement this, the error code should not be 126, 127, 128, or 255. It should probably be something like 128+_NSIG+1 (where _NSIG is included by signal.h), to avoid any accidental triggering of this functionality. Decimal 200 might be a decent choice. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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