On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On 07/28/2011 04:10 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > On 07/28/2011 02:57 AM, Eric Belanger wrote:
> >> > That would work but I'm not sure if the shell will interpret
> >> > the return value as being for the script rather than for the
> >> > function itself. How about replacing 'return 0' by 'exit 0' ?
> >> > That seems to be better suited for the situation as we are
> >> > exiting the script at that point. And it is accepted by bash.
> > Great. Thanks. I'll test it out
> I think I'll go with exit 0. Line #1089 in 1.58 laptop-mode script
> already did exit 0 gracefully.
I just can't get what the magic with that 'exit 0' is, other than
fooling the user into thinking everything went just fine.
> For now, please use exit 0 and report back if it causes any other
> problems.
Or just don't use anything. And this is why:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sh.html
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values shall be returned:
...
Otherwise, the shell shall return the exit status of
the last command it invoked or attempted to invoke
(see also the exit utility in Special Built-In
Utilities).
Cheers,
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Cristian
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