On 6 June 2012 at 12:39, Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote: > >The exit status of for, example, "sortm -version" or "scan -version" > >is not zero. Shouldn't it be. It was in a very old version of nmh, > >nmh-1.2-20070115cvs. > > AFAICT ... it's always been that way. We didn't have -version back in > MH-6.8.5, but at least as far as our sources go back (1999) -version has > always exited with an exit code of 1. > > Should it? I dunno ... what do people think?
When -version is successful, then I'd prefer to see exit status of zero. If I were to use nmh-prog -version in a makefile, then a non-zero successful exit status would break the make. Cheerio... -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
