Hi Ananth

> It is not a good idea to rely on the exit codes of
> patchadd. 

? IMHO that's the only known method to use patchadd in a script  

>Atleast the 
> man page seems to indicate that is the case.
> 
> EXIT STATUS
>       The following exit values are returned:
> 0        Successful completion.
>       >0       An error occurred.

There's a list of return codes for patchadd that we use to distinguish between 
expected return codes and unexpected return code. This method worked fine for 
Solaris 8 and 9 and it should also work for Solaris 10 .

> As for a description of patchadd behaviour in S10,
> Vasilly's Arabian 
> Nights series ;) in the thread below will be of great
> help:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=1
> 5730&tstart=0

Thanks for the link - I'll take a look at the page.

regards

Bernd
 
 
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