Re: chcpu exit code?

[worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)]

> From: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
> 
> Although the man page does not mention the exit status, I think
> it's wrong that 'chcpu' exits OK when an action failed or
> when a bad CPU number was specified:

> WDYT?

I agree that it would be helpful if chcpu used the usual
success/failure convention for exit status.  The reason is that
sometimes one wants to use "set -e" in a script so that any command
that fails unexpectedly will cause processing to halt.  Similarly, if
one hands a command to a program to execute, a program that is set up
to execute generic commands supplied by some outside source usually
handles non-zero exit status specially by reporting that the command
failed, while treating zero exit statuses as not-to-be-remarked-upon.

Dale