On 21 April 2015 at 17:47, Avra Sengupta <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Today whenever a gluster command fails the ret code is always 1.
> Irrespective of the failure. I have sent the following patch which takes a
> first step towards bringing some order to this chaos.
> http://review.gluster.org/10313
>
> It addresses the following scenarios:
>
> 1. Invalid Syntax: I have incorporated this for the snapshot commands only
> for now. In case of an invalid syntax the retcode will be 2.
> 2. Another transaction in progress errors: In case the command fails to
> acquire a lock, because another transaction is in progress the retcode will
> be 3.
>
> If the approach is fine, and it's fine to go with such incremental
> retcodes, then once this patch gets accepted, I will send further patches
> on top of this one. I would also urge other component owners to block
> retcodes for their components in "glusterd-errno.h", and start doing the
> same.
>

+1. This even helps a great deal in automation, especially the "another
transaction is progress"

Best Regards,
Vishwanath


> Regards,
> Avra
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