maint.mk: forbid exit(-1)

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diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index d5af750..b39e9ae 100644 (file)
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -353,8 +353,9 @@ sc_prohibit_strncpy:
 #  | xargs --no-run-if-empty \
 #      perl -pi -e 's/(^|[^.])\b(exit ?)\(0\)/$1$2(EXIT_SUCCESS)/'
 sc_prohibit_magic_number_exit:
-       @prohibit='(^|[^.])\<(usage|exit) ?\([0-9]|\<error ?\([1-9][0-9]*,'     \
-       halt='use EXIT_* values rather than magic number'                       \
+       @prohibit='(^|[^.])\<(usage|exit|error) ?\(-?[0-9]+[,)]'        \
+       exclude='error ?\(0,'                                           \
+       halt='use EXIT_* values rather than magic number'               \
          $(_sc_search_regexp)
 
 # Using EXIT_SUCCESS as the first argument to error is misleading,