On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Spear, Raymond (Mission Critical Linux) <ray.sp...@hp.com> wrote: > I have been investigating what it would take inside the autotest code to > return a non-0 status. > > Well, this is getting to be more complicated than I first thought (at least > for this novice). > > It looks like the web service which the cli connects to treats all requests > like "tell me about system with this pattern". So, 'host list xyz" is no > different than 'host list x*' which is no different than 'host list'. > > I suppose the cli code could special case an empty return for specific > systems to a non-zero status. I don't like special cases unless they are > really necessary. > > Additionally, the calling script/program could look for an empty return and > handle the special case. > > So, I guess the code is "doing what was intended". > ray spear
Fair enough, thanks for looking into this! -- Lucas _______________________________________________ Autotest mailing list Autotest@test.kernel.org http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest
