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#43 failure to unsquash but 0 exit status - unsquashfs 4.2

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nobody
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2011-04-30
2011-04-30
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Hi Philip...

If I give the -d <dir> option to unsquashfs 4.2 and <dir> already exists but is empty, stderr output is "dir_scan: failed to make directory <dir>, because File exists". But then nothing is unsquashed, and, even so, the exit status of the unsquashfs process is 0.

I think probably if unsquashfs 4.2 fails for any reason, then its exit status should be nonzero.

I think probably if the output directory exists but is empty, unsquashfs should not refuse to use it, but this is more a matter of style, really.

So I think there are two problems here, but clearly the only critical one is the exit status's failure to be nonzero when unsquashing fails.

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