[lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

[Jeff Licquia]

On 07/11/2013 12:24 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jeff Licquia <licquia at linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> 
>> If we were to adopt the sysexits.h return values for sendmail in the
>> LSB, it would be fairly easy to implement in lsb-invalid-mta.  And it
>> sounds like there could be a use case for including those specifications
>> if your software is expected to react differently to different sendmail
>> error conditions.
> 
>> And I note that lsb-invalid-mta could use EX_SOFTWARE or EX_UNAVAILABLE,
>> which don't seem to me to be lying. :-)
> 
>> What do others think?  Should this be a candidate for inclusion?
> 
> I think so.  Those exit statuses have been very widely used in mail
> systems for quite some time and are very handy to have available and
> standardized when writing any software that is intended to receive and act
> on incoming mail.

Bug filed here:

https://lsbbugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3818

Feel free to add your two cents.  There's a reference to this mailing
list thread in the bug, too.

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