maint.mk: teach sc_prohibit_magic_number_exit to accept 77

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diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index 09f55c5..9c660a1 100644 (file)
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ sc_prohibit_strncpy:
 #      perl -pi -e 's/(^|[^.])\b(exit ?)\(0\)/$1$2(EXIT_SUCCESS)/'
 sc_prohibit_magic_number_exit:
        @prohibit='(^|[^.])\<(usage|exit|error) ?\(-?[0-9]+[,)]'        \
-       exclude='error ?\((0,|[^,]*)'                                   \
+       exclude='exit \(77\)|error ?\(((0|77),|[^,]*)'                  \
        halt='use EXIT_* values rather than magic number'               \
          $(_sc_search_regexp)