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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: shuahkh@osg.samsung.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	davej@codemonkey.org.uk, namhyung@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftracetest: Don't use non-POSIX exit -1
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:56:02 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1425524162.32154.18.camel@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150304212659.3e1d1414@grimm.local.home>

On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 21:26 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu,  5 Mar 2015 13:04:02 +1100
> Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > POSIX says that exit takes an unsigned integer between 0 and 255.
> > 
> > Convert exit -1 to exit 255.
> > 
> 
> Why 255? Why not just exit 1?

I was trying to emulate the current behaviour:

$ /bin/bash
$ exit -1
exit
$ echo $?
255

> Actually, don't we have explicit numbers for exit status?
> 
> /me not looking at the code right now to figure that out.

Yeah looks like it, and some interesting signal handling tricks:

  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest#n123

I'll send a new version using "exit $FAIL" ?

cheers



  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-05  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-05  2:04 [PATCH] ftracetest: Don't use non-POSIX exit -1 Michael Ellerman
2015-03-05  2:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-05  2:56   ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2015-03-05 14:04     ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-05  2:40 ` Masami Hiramatsu

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