On 06/03/2014 08:41 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> IMHO, there is no reason to ignore such a write error. >> Hence, false --version and false --help (currently always failing) are the >> ones I would change, so that they succeed when there is no write error. > > On second thought, I don't like the idea of making false --help/--version > exit successfully. > > Maybe, gasp, we should just make true and false the exception from > GNU's accept --help/--version philosophy, and simply exit 0/1, ignoring > *all* options. This would add minor complication to true.1 and false.1 > man page generation, but it would not be hard to work around.
Another possibility - make it possible to detect write failure, by using a non-default exit value: true --help => 0 true --help > /dev/full => 2 false --help => 1 false --help > /dev/full => 2 -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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