docs/122470: [patch] exit status on fetch(1) manual page
Jaakko Heinonen
jh at saunalahti.fi
Sat Apr 5 16:00:10 UTC 2008
>Number: 122470
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] exit status on fetch(1) manual page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Apr 05 16:00:09 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jaakko Heinonen
>Release: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD x 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008 root at driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
fetch(1) manual page states that fetch(1) exits with status zero or one:
EXIT STATUS
The fetch command returns zero on success, or one on failure. If multi-
ple URLs are listed on the command line, fetch will attempt to retrieve
each one of them in turn, and will return zero only if they were all suc-
cessfully retrieved.
However it's possible that it exits with status other than zero or one:
$ fetch -h foo
usage: fetch [-146AFMPRUadlmnpqrsv] [-N netrc] [-o outputfile]
[-S bytes] [-B bytes] [-T seconds] [-w seconds]
[-h host -f file [-c dir] | URL ...]
$ echo $?
64
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- fetch.1-exit-status.diff begins here ---
Index: fetch.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1,v
retrieving revision 1.68
diff -p -u -r1.68 fetch.1
--- fetch.1 28 Dec 2007 19:47:37 -0000 1.68
+++ fetch.1 8 Mar 2008 16:10:18 -0000
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ for a description of additional environm
.Sh EXIT STATUS
The
.Nm
-command returns zero on success, or one on failure.
+command returns zero on success, or non-zero on failure.
If multiple URLs are listed on the command line,
.Nm
will attempt to retrieve each one of them in turn, and will return
--- fetch.1-exit-status.diff ends here ---
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