------- Comment From michael.holz...@de.ibm.com 2016-09-15 10:30 EDT------- (In reply to comment #9) > FYI: The patch in attachment 111971 [details] has neither been reviewed nor > accepted so far, so no guarantees this will ever go upstream like that. > > I'm still interested in an answer to my question: > Why is the return code of --help or --version a problem?
An error code != 0 signals that the operation failed. One (perhaps not very realistic?) example: If a script parses the version string of the tool to find out which features are supported and checks if the --version option worked or not. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1616596 Title: ziomon_util: Unexpected return code To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-z-systems/+bug/1616596/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs