Excerpts from dl.info-afs: 8-Sep-94 Re: new features for AFS 3.5 "Gordon
M. Charrick"@hel (347*)
> How about adding a -nonverbose option to each command so it can be easy
> to parse the output of each command. Also, the exit codes of the
> commands need to be worked on so we don't have to parse the output to
> see if the command failed!
Although not having a -parsable (or equivalent) switch for the commands
is at least partially understandable, it amazes me that the return
statuses were ever non-meaningful in the first place (let alone STILL
non-meaningful)! Commands that do not return a meaningful exit status
are BROKEN. Period.
I waste large amounts of my time fixing problems that are ultimately
traced back to the non-meaningful exit statuses of the AFS command
suites. If Transarc is going to put ANY time into the AFS command
suites, fixing this bug should be priority #1.
James
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