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diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml index f950b8fe..193bc9be 100644 --- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml +++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml @@ -136,14 +136,6 @@ crt (remember when fixing stuff in the server room!)</para> </section> - <section><title>Return the proper status code</title> - <para>See <xref linkend="ReturnCodes"> below - for the numeric values of status codes and their - description. Remember to return an UNKNOWN state if bogus or - invalid command line arguments are supplied or it you are unable - to check the service.</para> - </section> - <section><title>Plugin Return Codes</title> <para>The return codes below are based on the POSIX spec of returning a positive value. Netsaint prior to v0.0.7 supported non-POSIX @@ -190,8 +182,12 @@ <entry align="center"><para>3</para></entry> <entry valign="middle"><para>Unknown</para></entry> <entry><para>Invalid command line arguments were supplied to the - plugin or the plugin was unable to check the status of the given - hosts/service</para></entry> + plugin or low-level failures internal to the plugin (such as unable to fork, + or open a tcp socket) that prevent it from performing the specified + operation. Higher-level errors (such as name resolution errors, + socket timeouts, etc) are outside of the control of plugins and should + generally NOT be reported as UNKNOWN states. + </para></entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> |