- * \return This function either succeeds or does not return. On success, the
- * number of the filter is returned and conf is initialized to point to the
- * filter configuration as returned by the filter's ->setup() method, if any.
- * Moreover, *lprp is initialized to contain the parsed command line options.
- * On errors, the function calls exit(EXIT_FAILURE).
+ * \return On success, the number of the filter is returned and conf is
+ * initialized to point to the filter configuration as returned by the filter's
+ * ->setup() method, if any. Moreover, *lprp is initialized to contain the
+ * parsed command line options. On errors a negative paraslash error code is
+ * returned.