Hello,
I've finally gotten around to an updated version of rdiff-backup where
the return codes are all weird.
I have read through the thread:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2023-02/msg00034.html
I have to concur that it's very wrong for the rdiff-backup to succeed
and return non-zero.
There's an example in the thread above about doing bitwise checks on the
return code. That's all fine and dandy, but commands in a POSIX
environment must work like this:
commandA && commandB && commandC
Returning non-zero breaks this completely. In some environments (docker)
you are required to chain commands like that. Our backup scripts make
extensive use of rdiff-backup in the syntax to execute commands over a
remote SSH session using a single connection/authentication.
I would like to suggest there needs to be an option to not return >0 on
any command that actually succeeds (and it really should be the default,
too).
Thanks,
--Pat
