At 8:30 PM -0400 8/27/01, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>So rather than try and fight VMS, I'll just special case it. I have
>three basic exit conditions.
>
>1) All tests successful.
>2) Failed some tests.
>3) Test died.
>
>So what would be sensible exit codes for those under VMS? Ok, failed
>normally and failed abnormally.
Thanks for bearing with us on this. I think that should probably be:
1.) 0, the generic success value
2.) 1, the generic failure value
3.) Any failure status that is not the same severity as generic
failure; I'd say 2 would do as well as anything. The following may
be helpful:
$ perl -e "$x=system(qq/$^X -e ""exit $ARGV[0]""/); print qq/$x\t/,$x >> 8;" 0
0 0
$ perl -e "$x=system(qq/$^X -e ""exit $ARGV[0]""/); print qq/$x\t/,$x >> 8;" 1
%SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort
1024 4
$ perl -e "$x=system(qq/$^X -e ""exit $ARGV[0]""/); print qq/$x\t/,$x >> 8;" 2
%NONAME-E-NOMSG, Message number 00000002
512 2
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