From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 09:12:03 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: error codes on exit
Message-ID: <7f0c9ab8-c1ca-171b-8247-6d921702f3bc@iee.email>
In-Reply-To: <CAMMLpeScunGg5WM4N90vG+yN3tOATqhsL2iRLsJ43ksNyTx_wQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 21/05/2021 17:53, Alex Henrie wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 6:40 PM Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's good to not include many initial codes, but I would start with at
>> least three:
>>
>>   OK = 0,
>>   UNKNOWN = 1,
>>   NORMAL = 2,
> If you go that route, could you please pick a word other than "normal"
> to describe errors that are not entirely unexpected? I'm worried that
> someone will see "normal" and use it instead of "OK" to indicate
> success.
>
> -Alex
Typical <== Normal

Though abnormal and atypical often have different implications ;-)
P.