On 05/09/12 18:58, Andreas Löffler wrote: > Hi Erik, > > thanks for your suggestions. > > We're aware that VBoxManage at the moment doesn't do an optimal job at > the moment when it comes to exit codes, e.g. they're somewhat rarely > used besides 0. Also they often only indicate the bare minimum required > for getting a shell script to work. > > However, if you need to do more advanced work I'd recommend using our > API instead of using VBoxManage as a client. There you have a much more > fine-grained control on what happened compared to plain old exit codes > returned by VBoxManage. > > I'll think about the PID output on successful start and the exit code > handling; both sound like a useful improvement to me. For 4.1 we > probably won't touch the current behavior, but for the 4.2(.x) branch we > certainly can improve things a bit. >
I appreciate the above judgement and suggestion, and respect the planning, of course. Thanks for the valuable tool called VirtualBox, Erik. _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
