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Re: cvs exit status
From: |
Greg A. Woods |
Subject: |
Re: cvs exit status |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:45:12 -0400 (EDT) |
[ 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?
--
Greg A. Woods
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