------- Comment From michael.holz...@de.ibm.com 2016-09-15 10:30 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #9)
> FYI: The patch in attachment 111971 [details] has neither been reviewed nor
> accepted so far, so no guarantees this will ever go upstream like that.
>
> I'm still interested in an answer to my question:
> Why is the return code of --help or --version a problem?

An error code != 0 signals that the operation failed.

One (perhaps not very realistic?) example:

If a script parses the version string of the tool to find out which
features are supported and checks if the --version option worked or not.

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