On Monday 13 February 2006 09:11, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> I will check in his fix, but first I thought I would ask the gurus:
> Why does this test return an exit code of 2 (and not 0)?  What does
> a return code of 2 mean in this context anyway?  Any ideas?
> Will his fix break anything?

'man ls' on my system says:

Exit status is 0 if OK, 1 if minor problems, 2 if serious trouble.


It is left to the reader to discover what are 'minor problems' and 'serious 
trouble' for ls.

Regards,
Daniel

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