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diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml index d9340285..228d3fa1 100644 --- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml +++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml @@ -194,13 +194,15 @@ <row> <entry align="center"><para>3</para></entry> <entry valign="middle"><para>Unknown</para></entry> - <entry><para>Invalid command line arguments were supplied to the + <entry><para>Invalid command line arguments were supplied to the 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> + </para> + <para>The --help or --version output should also result in Unknown state.</para> + </entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> @@ -610,6 +612,9 @@ <para>The option -v or --verbose should be present in all plugins. The user should be allowed to specify -v multiple times to increase the verbosity level, as described in <xref linkend="verboselevels">.</para> + + The exit code for version information or help should be UNKNOWN + (3).</para> </section> <section> |