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Re: [Nmh-workers] Exit status when argument is -version
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Paul Fox |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Exit status when argument is -version |
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Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:51:21 -0400 |
ken 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.
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> 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.
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> Should it? I dunno ... what do people think?
it should only return non-zero if the information it reports
is incorrect. ;-)
paul
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