Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:40:17 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: standards/61934: [PATCH] FreeBSD's mailx not completely SUSv3-compliant Message-ID: <200402100640.i1A6eHbo088061@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>
To: Wartan Hachaturow <wart@tepkom.ru>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: standards/61934: [PATCH] FreeBSD's mailx not completely SUSv3-compliant
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 01:38:15 -0500 (EST)
On 09-Feb-2004 Wartan Hachaturow wrote:
| On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:59:59AM -0500, Mike Heffner wrote:
|
|
|> checkmail and use it instead for the -e option? Also, the fprintf that
|> displays "No mail for ..." should not be printed when using the -e
|> option.
|> SuSv3 states that when using the -e option, nothing should be printed.
|
| Well, I've interpreted the phrase "The mailx utility shall write nothing
| and exit with a successful return code if there is mail to read" like
| that "one should not print anything in "there is mail" case".
| Of course, since most prospective use of -e is in scripts, printing
| in "no mail" case is, perhaps, futile :)
|
I think the "no mail" case is valid and we shouldn't print anything.
However, I do believe we should still leave in the err[x]() messages for
fatal conditions.
Mike
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