The following reply was made to PR user/6494; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> To: gn...@openbsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: user/6494: make -q exits with -1 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:52:30 +0100
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 07:50:34PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > the man page is in line with what posix specifies, so i'm going to go > out on a limb and say the code is wrong. specifically, -q is supposed to > return 1, not -1, if the target file is not up to date. so i'd further > say we should expect it to "exit(1)", not -1. > > i checked netbsd source, and they return 1, not -1. freebsd have no > compat.c file. i don;t have net/free source trees to dig any further. > anyone want to fix this, or have another solution? > ...and i tracked down the netbsd commit where this happened: 11:13:46 2001 UTC (9 years, 6 months ago) by wiz Branch: MAIN Changes since 1.31: +4 -4 lines Diff to previous 1.31 (colored) Negative exit code cleanup: Replace exit(-x) with exit(x). As seen on tech-userlevel. __________________________________________________________________
