Re: Termination status
Re: Termination status
- Subject: Re: Termination status
- From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 21:18:59 -0500
On 11/15/02 at 3:09 PM, Malte Tancred <email@hidden> wrote:
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Sent this message to the list yesterday. I haven't seen it arrive to
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the list though. Any known problems with the list server? The outgoing
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queue on our mail server is empty and I haven't received any bounce
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messages... yet. :-)
Funny. Pretty sure I saw it.
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I noticed however that lsbom always exited 0
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(zero) whether or not it succeeded reading the bom file.
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Personally I consider this a bug. A command line tool should in my
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opinion report success by exiting zero and failure by exiting
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<something else>.
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Tools that do not follow this guideline are harder to use than tools
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that do, simply because there's no way (or more difficult and error
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prone ways) for callers to find out if all went well, be it shell
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scripts or other programs.
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What do you think? Do you consider this a bug worth reporting to Apple?
I don't consider it a bug, because it's not behavior contradictory to what's
documented, but I think it's a reasonable feature request.
G
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