diff --git a/man/mergerfs.1 b/man/mergerfs.1
index 6325f8c5..e57396bf 100644
--- a/man/mergerfs.1
+++ b/man/mergerfs.1
@@ -704,8 +704,8 @@ Even though it\[cq]s a more niche situation this hack breaks normal
 security and behavior and as such is \f[C]off\f[R] by default.
 If set to \f[C]git\f[R] it will only perform the hack when the path in
 question includes \f[C]/.git/\f[R].
-\f[C]all\f[R] will result it applying anytime a readonly file which
-is empty is opened for writing.
+\f[C]all\f[R] will result it applying anytime a readonly file which is
+empty is opened for writing.
 .SH FUNCTIONS, CATEGORIES and POLICIES
 .PP
 The POSIX filesystem API is made up of a number of functions.
@@ -1643,7 +1643,7 @@ Fast network, slow drives, small\[cq]ish bursty writes: You have a
 10+Gbps network and wish to transfer amounts of data less than your
 cache drive but wish to do so quickly.
 .PP
-With #1 it's arguable if you should be using mergerfs at all.
+With #1 it\[cq]s arguable if you should be using mergerfs at all.
 RAID would probably be the better solution.
 If you\[cq]re going to use mergerfs there are other tactics that may
 help: spreading the data across drives (see the mergerfs.dup tool) and
@@ -1963,7 +1963,7 @@ efficiently determine whether to scan for new content rather than simply
 performing a full scan.
 If using the default \f[B]getattr\f[R] policy of \f[B]ff\f[R] it\[cq]s
 possible those programs will miss an update on account of it returning
-the first directory found\[cq]s \f[B]stat\f[R] info and its a later
+the first directory found\[cq]s \f[B]stat\f[R] info and it\[cq]s a later
 directory on another mount which had the \f[B]mtime\f[R] recently
 updated.
 To fix this you will want to set \f[B]func.getattr=newest\f[R].
diff --git a/src/category.cpp b/src/category.cpp
index e1fd7f2a..cc3e52ff 100644
--- a/src/category.cpp
+++ b/src/category.cpp
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Category::Base::to_string(void) const
 {
   std::set<std::string> rv;
 
-  for(auto func : funcs)
+  for(const auto func : funcs)
     rv.insert(func->to_string());
 
   return str::join(rv,',');
diff --git a/src/func.cpp b/src/func.cpp
index 39aa7194..1c6065c6 100644
--- a/src/func.cpp
+++ b/src/func.cpp
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ int
 Func::Base::Action::from_string(const std::string &policyname_)
 {
   policy = Policies::Action::find(policyname_);
+  if(!policy)
+    return -EINVAL;
 
   return 0;
 }
@@ -37,6 +39,8 @@ int
 Func::Base::Create::from_string(const std::string &policyname_)
 {
   policy = Policies::Create::find(policyname_);
+  if(!policy)
+    return -EINVAL;
 
   return 0;
 }
@@ -51,6 +55,8 @@ int
 Func::Base::Search::from_string(const std::string &policyname_)
 {
   policy = Policies::Search::find(policyname_);
+  if(!policy)
+    return -EINVAL;
 
   return 0;
 }
diff --git a/src/mergerfs.cpp b/src/mergerfs.cpp
index 56a52e8e..24a76eaa 100644
--- a/src/mergerfs.cpp
+++ b/src/mergerfs.cpp
@@ -164,7 +164,10 @@ namespace l
 
     options::parse(&args,&errs);
     if(errs.size())
-      std::cerr << errs << std::endl;
+      {
+        std::cerr << errs << std::endl;
+        return 1;
+      }
 
     l::setup_resources();
     l::get_fuse_operations(ops,cfg->nullrw);
diff --git a/src/policy.hpp b/src/policy.hpp
index e527b94a..de7a4bfb 100644
--- a/src/policy.hpp
+++ b/src/policy.hpp
@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ namespace Policy
       return (*impl)(branches_,fusepath_.c_str(),paths_);
     }
 
+    operator bool() const
+    {
+      return (bool)impl;
+    }
+
   private:
     ActionImpl *impl;
   };
@@ -134,6 +139,11 @@ namespace Policy
       return (*impl)(branches_,fusepath_.c_str(),paths_);
     }
 
+    operator bool() const
+    {
+      return (bool)impl;
+    }
+
   private:
     CreateImpl *impl;
   };
@@ -188,6 +198,11 @@ namespace Policy
       return (*impl)(branches_,fusepath_.c_str(),paths_);
     }
 
+    operator bool() const
+    {
+      return (bool)impl;
+    }
+
   private:
     SearchImpl *impl;
   };