On 03/20/2014 07:12 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > The standard says that !0 means there was an error, regardless of what > options you gave.
again, which "standard"? again, i'm not argueing about the non --version|--help|--usage and so on options, i only disagree for those 'special' options. so far, you're only claiming things without references. > I can not find one single other tool ( and I've > just checked over 50 ) that returns a failure code when printing its > version. just one to proof you wrong (but you can find many others): mkfs.vfat > I found this bug was actually > calling mkfs.* -V to test whether the corresponding utility is > installed and executable so that it can skip that filesystem if the > tools are missing. maybe you should consider using the usual test -x for that. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
