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[10/41] merge-index.c: use the stdlib EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE exit status

Message ID 20220321225523.724509-11-gitter.spiros@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series use the stdlib EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE exit status | expand

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Elia Pinto March 21, 2022, 10:54 p.m. UTC 
The C standard specifies two constants, EXIT_SUCCESS and  EXIT_FAILURE, that may
be  passed  to exit() to indicate successful or unsuccessful termination,
respectively. The value of status in exit(status) may be EXIT_SUCCESS,
EXIT_FAILURE, or any other value, though only the least significant 8 bits (that
is, status & 0377) shall be available to a waiting parent proces. So exit(-1)
return 255.

Use the C standard EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE to indicate the program exit
status instead of "0" or "1", respectively. In <stdlib.h> EXIT_FAILURE has the
value "1": use EXIT_FAILURE even if the program uses exit(-1), ie 255, for
consistency.

Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
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 builtin/merge-index.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/builtin/merge-index.c b/builtin/merge-index.c
index c0383fe9df..efa7ceaa35 100644
--- a/builtin/merge-index.c
+++ b/builtin/merge-index.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@  static int merge_entry(int pos, const char *path)
 		else {
 			if (!quiet)
 				die("merge program failed");
-			exit(1);
+			exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 		}
 	}
 	return found;