Re: Which exit code should --halt give?

[Martin d'Anjou]

On 15-05-04 06:55 PM, Ole Tange wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk> wrote:
>
> > --halt soon,fail=XX% == --halt XX%
> > --halt now,fail=XX%
> > --halt soon,success=XX%
> > --halt now,success=XX%
>
> I would imagine the typical situation where % would be used is when
> you have lots of jobs. If you have 10000s of jobs the limit of 253
> (given by 8-bit and 254+255 reserved) failing jobs will be useless,
> but the exit code could be the percentage of failing jobs rounded up
> to the nearest integer. So 0% => 0, 0.01% => 1 and 99.99% => 100.

Exit codes 1 and 2 are "reserved".
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exitcodes.html

Martin