Added section on exit status, TODO --datadir note

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trunk/rdiff-backup/TODO

+Look at manual page examples.
+
 Consider adding --datadir option (Jean-Sébastien GOETSCHY)
 
 See if regressing takes too much memory (large directories).
@@ -8,7 +10,7 @@ Use ctime to check whether files have been changed.  See message:
 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2003-06/msg00050.html
 by Andrew Bressen.
 
-Profile 0.13.0
+Profile 0.13.x
 
 Look at EAs when unames change.
 

trunk/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1

@@ -861,6 +861,15 @@ option.
 The log file is not compressed and can become quite large if
 rdiff-backup is run with high verbosity.
 
+.SH EXIT STATUS
+
+If rdiff-backup finishes successfully, the exit status will be 0.  If
+there is an error, it will be non-zero (usually 1, but don't depend on
+this specific value).  When setting up rdiff-backup to run
+automatically (as from
+.BR cron (8)
+or similar) it is probably a good idea to check the exit code.
+
 .SH BUGS
 rdiff-backup uses the shell command
 .BR mknod (1)