>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[ On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 10:57:50 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] >> Subject: Re: cvs exit status >> >> Under some error conditions, the exit status gets incremented rather than >> being set to a fixed value. That means that under those error conditions, >> the exit status varies and may sometimes indicate success (due to overflow) >> if there are a lot of problems. >> >> So, exit status is not a reliable way to detect problems. You must parse >> the CVS standard output and standard error streams for relevant messages.
>What's wrong with using relational tests?!?!?!? Don't you do that >anyway just as a matter of careful robust programming? What happens on a Unix system when the exit status exceeds 127? It overflows. An incremented exit status can (and does) report success in the presence of failures. >--- End of forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
