From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Dec 24 0:50: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBD3637B401 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 00:50:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F83543EF1 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 00:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBO8o2NS034554 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 00:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBO8o2Gv034553; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 00:50:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 00:50:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200212240850.gBO8o2Gv034553@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Maxim Konovalov Subject: Re: bin/46501: Ping exits 2 when it should exit 1 Reply-To: Maxim Konovalov Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/46501; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Maxim Konovalov To: Avleen Vig Cc: Tom Rhodes , "" Subject: Re: bin/46501: Ping exits 2 when it should exit 1 Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:41:01 +0300 (MSK) On 23:30-0800, Dec 23, 2002, Avleen Vig wrote: > > Exit is already documented as 2, like the code. > > This has been 2 for a long time now, why do you want to change it > > all of a sudden? In my opinion this change isn't correct because so > > many other utilities are using exit(2); also. > > Ping is documented as I stated in ping(8) as exiting 1 when it actually > exits 2. From ping(8): RETURN VALUES The ping utility returns an exit status of zero if at least one response was heard from the specified host; a status of two if the transmission ----------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ was successful but no responses were received; or another value (from ) if an error occurred. > I don't know of any other utils that exit(2) when they don't have somthing > exiting 1 already. > It makes little sense to exit(2) when there's nothing in ping that will > exit(1). > > Thus it makes sense to correct this. I don't believe "it haven't been > changed for a long time" is a valid reason for leaving something > broken/incorrect. > > If this won't be fixed, then the documentation needs to be fixed, but I > don't feel that's correct. -- Maxim Konovalov, maxim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message