On 10/10/05, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To be clear, my proposal was the the Linux return code remains constant. > --rc would prefix the stdout output with the CP return code.
That was certainly not clear, otherwise I would have disagreed sooner :-) Separation of the prefaced return code and the output is not easy in shell scripts (especially since we lack multi-stream pipelines and a 'not' stage). I would prefer the --rc to make the $? carry the CP return code (and map unexpected Linux events into a negative value). I can see some value in writing the response to stderr for rc>0 but I am not sure you want that. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
