On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 11:04:56AM +0200, Karthik Nayak wrote:

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM Kristoffer Haugsbakk
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025, at 10:31, Karthik Nayak wrote:

quoted

Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Sometimes code wants to die in a situation where it already has written
an error message. To use the same error code as `die()` we have to open
code the code with a call to `exit(128)` in such cases, which is easy to

Nit: This reads a little weird.

Maybe s/to open code the code/to open-code the code/

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.

Patrick