Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.7-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

procps: vmstat should return EXIT_FAILURE as return code in two cases
instead of '0'

patch included.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
 APT prefers stable
 APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                 5.5-5        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.3-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

-- no debconf information
diff -ur procps-3.2.7/vmstat.c procps-FIX/vmstat.c
--- procps-3.2.7/vmstat.c	2006-06-24 23:41:48.000000000 -0700
+++ procps-FIX/vmstat.c	2007-05-21 19:48:47.000000000 -0700
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@
     fDiskstat=fopen("/proc/diskstats","rb");
     if(!fDiskstat){
         fprintf(stderr, "Your kernel doesn't support diskstat. (2.5.70 or above required)\n"); 
-        exit(0);
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
     }
 
     fclose(fDiskstat);
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@
     }
   }else{
     fprintf(stderr, "Your kernel doesn't support diskstat (2.5.70 or above required)\n"); 
-    exit(0);
+    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
   } 
 }
 

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