> Thus, the patch makes the script exit with status 1 when none of the
> above output() calls produces output.
>
> Maybe it exits with status 1 when it fails to produce output? Obvious
> ouput elsewhere: printing the version (okay),
That exits with 0.
> and a print in get_maintainers(). Can't tell what the latter does. Hmm.
That is for --sections, and you're right, this is missing:
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index f4fee27..e682d1f 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ sub get_maintainers {
print("$line\n");
}
print("\n");
+ $exit = 0;
}
}
}
Paolo
