From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 10 12:44:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27925 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:44:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27915; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:44:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA26731; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma026729; Fri Jul 10 12:43:39 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA27189; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:43:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199807101943.MAA27189@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Do you rely on "dump"s (currently incorrect) exit codes? In-Reply-To: <199807100949.CAA01481@freefall.freebsd.org> from Joseph Koshy at "Jul 10, 98 02:49:26 am" To: jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG (Joseph Koshy) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joseph Koshy writes: > I'm planning a straight-forward change to "dump" to make its exit codes > confirm to the man page. Currently "dump" returns "3" (i.e. non-recoverable > error) in a number of places where it should return "1" (startup error). Do these values jive OK with man sysexits(3) ? -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message