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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, williams@redhat.com, jkacur@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] don't use exit(-1) for failures
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 08:53:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160414065336.GH10108@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458239345-30892-3-git-send-email-lcapitulino@redhat.com>

Hallo,

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 02:29:04PM -0400, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> The kernel uses only 8 bits of the status as a return
> code, so this actually becomes 255 in the shell.
> 
> In any case, the most widely convension is exit(1)
> for failures, so let's be consistent.

The more portable version for this is to use EXIT_FAILURE. Not sure
though if it matters even for software that is not linux-centric like
rt-tests.

Best regards
Uwe

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-14  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-17 18:29 [PATCH v2 0/3] rt-tests: minor fixes Luiz Capitulino
2016-03-17 18:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] rt-migrate-test: fix return code Luiz Capitulino
2016-03-22 14:22   ` John Kacur
2016-03-22 14:47     ` Luiz Capitulino
2016-03-22 14:59       ` John Kacur
2016-03-22 15:30         ` Luiz Capitulino
2016-03-22 16:24           ` John Kacur
2016-03-22 16:43             ` Luiz Capitulino
2016-03-22 15:05       ` John Kacur
2016-03-17 18:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] don't use exit(-1) for failures Luiz Capitulino
2016-03-22 14:21   ` John Kacur
2016-03-22 14:30     ` Luiz Capitulino
2016-04-14  6:53   ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2016-03-17 18:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] cyclictest: initialize 'stop' early Luiz Capitulino
2016-03-22 14:55   ` John Kacur
2016-03-22 14:59     ` Luiz Capitulino

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