Re: [PATCH v3 10/12] usage: allow dying without writing an error message

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Jun 3, 2025, 13:45 UTC
Message-ID: <8dca137e-04a5-4609-89ca-c89c31ce2b2d@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aD7SoaRg4UV6ktJL@pks.im>

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025, at 12:46, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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>> Ah, that makes so much difference.
>
> That reads better, but I guess we can improve it even further. How about
> this instead:
>
>     To retain the same error code as `die()` we have to use `exit(128)`,
>     which is easy to get wrong and leaves magical numbers all over our
>     codebase.

Looks great.  Just s/magical numbers/magic numbers/

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