Re: diff: suboptimal behaviour with errors

[Thomas Schwinge]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:55:17PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Thomas Schwinge <address@hidden> wrote:
> > soft errors (i.e. not enough memory, inable to open files etc.): 111
> 
> More precisely, 111 is usually only for transient problems that could
> go away on their own, depending on what the rest of the system is
> doing: ENFILE, ENOMEM, etc.  Non-transient problems like ENOENT,
> EACCES, etc., are typically reported as hard errors.

That was what I meant.
I agree that my examples were not clear about that.


Regards,
 Thomas