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Re: Derived metric issues

To: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Derived metric issues
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 08:08:18 -0500
Cc: "'Lukas Berk'" <lberk@xxxxxxxxxx>, pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Hi, Ken -

> [...]
> And finally the man page now reads like this ...

> [...]  Catastrophic errors such as not being able to open one of the
> files on the given path will cause an immediate return with a
> negative return value [...]

Is it obvious that such an error must be considered "catastrophic"?
The string parameter is now a colon-separated path with directories
and/or files.  Why would we want to stop after the first "not being
able to open", instead of continuing?

- FChE

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