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diff --git a/libbb/default_error_retval.c b/libbb/default_error_retval.c
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+/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2003  Manuel Novoa III  <mjn3@codepoet.org>
+ *
+ * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
+ */
+
+/* Seems silly to copyright a global variable.  ;-)  Oh well.
+ *
+ * At least one applet (cmp) returns a value different from the typical
+ * EXIT_FAILURE values (1) when an error occurs.  So, make it configurable
+ * by the applet.  I suppose we could use a wrapper function to set it, but
+ * that too seems silly.
+ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include "libbb.h"
+
+int xfunc_error_retval = EXIT_FAILURE;