From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH XTF 2/3] xtf-runner: provide a set of exit codes for different states
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:37:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160721163721.GF927@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160721162948.GE927@citrix.com>
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 05:29:48PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 05:27:24PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH XTF 2/3] xtf-runner: provide a set of exit codes for different states"):
> > > +# Return the exit code for different states.
> > > +# Avoid using 1 and 2 because python interpreter uses them.
> >
> > Python generates `2' too ? That's quite exciting. When ?
> >
>
> There is vague description on this:
>
> sys.exit([arg])
> ...
> Unix programs generally use 2 for command line syntax errors and 1 for
> all other kind of errors. If another type of object is passed, None is
> ...
>
> It doesn't explicitly say the interpreter uses 2. But we'd better err on
> the safe side.
>
And in practice:
$ python --xxx && echo $?
2
Indeed it uses 2.
Wei.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-21 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-21 15:44 [PATCH XTF 0/3] Runner exit code clean up Wei Liu
2016-07-21 15:44 ` [PATCH XTF 1/3] xtf-runner: sync all test states Wei Liu
2016-07-21 18:49 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-21 15:44 ` [PATCH XTF 2/3] xtf-runner: provide a set of exit codes for different states Wei Liu
2016-07-21 16:27 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-21 16:29 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-21 16:37 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-07-21 18:56 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-21 15:44 ` [PATCH XTF 3/3] xtf-runner: regularise runner exit code Wei Liu
2016-07-21 19:04 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-22 9:29 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-22 9:35 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-25 11:25 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-25 12:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-25 17:05 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-26 8:57 ` Wei Liu
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