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From: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img: add special exit code if bdrv_check is not supported
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:36:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <526638F9.8020107@kamp.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5266387D.1080506@redhat.com>

On 22.10.2013 10:34, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/22/2013 09:26 AM, Peter Lieven wrote:
>> currently it is not possible to distinguish by exitcode if there
>> has been an error or if bdrv_check is not supported by the image
>> format. Change the exitcode from 1 to 255 for the latter case.
> Why 255?  Sure, 'xargs' handles $?=255 differently than most other
> status, but in general, $? > 128 starts to be ambiguous with death by
> signal (on the other hand, most systems stop at 64 signals rather than
> 128).  Most applications that use differentiated exit status just use 1
> and 2, rather than 1 and 255.
I would also be fine with 63. Someone started to make some
choices for check->leaks, check->corruptions using 2,3, ...
I wanted to avoid conflicts if someone adds a 4,5,6 ...

Peter

      reply	other threads:[~2013-10-22  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-22  8:26 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img: add special exit code if bdrv_check is not supported Peter Lieven
2013-10-22  8:34 ` Eric Blake
2013-10-22  8:36   ` Peter Lieven [this message]

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