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* [PATCH] tools/power turbostat: return the exit status of a command
@ 2019-02-12 14:34 David Arcari
  2019-02-20 13:55 ` David Arcari
  2019-03-21 23:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: David Arcari @ 2019-02-12 14:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-pm; +Cc: David Arcari, Len Brown, Jirka Hladky, linux-kernel

turbostat failed to return a non-zero exit status even though the
supplied command (turbostat <command>) failed.  Currently when turbostat
forks a command it returns zero instead of the actual exit status of the
command.  Modify the code to return the exit status.

Signed-off-by: David Arcari <darcari@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
 tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
index 9327c0d..c3fad06 100644
--- a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
+++ b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
@@ -5077,6 +5077,9 @@ int fork_it(char **argv)
 		signal(SIGQUIT, SIG_IGN);
 		if (waitpid(child_pid, &status, 0) == -1)
 			err(status, "waitpid");
+
+		if (WIFEXITED(status))
+			status = WEXITSTATUS(status);
 	}
 	/*
 	 * n.b. fork_it() does not check for errors from for_all_cpus()
-- 
1.8.3.1

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