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Date:      Sun, 9 Jul 2000 12:36:39 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps ps.c
Message-ID:  <20000709123639.B36066@lucifer.bart.nl>
In-Reply-To: <xzpya3btx0x.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@flood.ping.uio.no on Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:31:42PM %2B0200
References:  <200007080513.WAA01643@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpya3btx0x.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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-On [20000709 12:35], Dag-Erling Smorgrav (des@flood.ping.uio.no) wrote:
>Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>   Log:
>>   Fix the exit code for the case where nentries == 0; if a PID doesn't exist,
>>   ps(1) should not be returning a success code (0), it should return an
>>   error code (1).  This was fixed on OpenBSD over 3 years ago.
>
>How many scripts does this break, and are you sure you should have
>MFCed so quickly?

AFAIK it shouldn't.

The behaviour FreeBSD had was broken compared to almost every other Unix
out there.  In fact, much scripts should now start to work with FreeBSD,
which in the past wouldn't.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven          Network- and systemadministrator
<jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>            VIA Net.Works The Netherlands
BSD: Technical excellence at its best  http://www.via-net-works.nl
``...by God I *KNOW* what this network is for, and you can't have it.''
	-- Russ Albery


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