Re: [Integrit-users] [Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>] Re: exit code conventions/standards

[Ed L C. <ec...@te...>]

RD...@ga... (Mr. Ross Druker) writes:

> On Oct 27,  9:35pm, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> > Subject: Re: [Integrit-users] [Andrew Gierth <an...@er...
> > "Gary E. Miller" <ge...@re...> writes:
> >
> > > Yo Ed!
> > >
> > > Uh, that makes 2.  Me and him. :-)
> >
> > Of course!  My mistake.  :)
>
> Well, I'm no guru, but since I started this thread, please count me
> as 3.  :-)

OK, even though you claim not to be a guru, I will count you as a
third guru.

Yes, I agree now.  Many tools that are comparative in nature use the
exit status to indicate simple yes/no information.  Thanks to the
advocates of this change for the helpful discussion.

I just heard of a situation (IRIX 6.5 with automounter) where an
assumption in the file tree walking code doesn't hold, so I'm going to
look into that, and then maybe a new release will come out that uses
the exit code to indicate whether differences have been encountered.

The new release will be version three, a change in the major version
number, to indicate that an incompatible change has occured.  (The new
exit status behavior will break some old scripts.)

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