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From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
To: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
Cc: elfutils-devel@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] elfcompress: fix exit status in case of an error
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 22:29:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJw6rT2mGddmeXXX@wildebeest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210512160000.GA3462@altlinux.org>

Hi Dmitry,

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 04:00:00PM +0000, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> Exit status of 255 in case of an error is probably not what elfcompress
> users expect, change it to 1.
> 
> Reported-by: Vitaly Chikunov <vt@altlinux.org>
> Fixes: 92acb57eb046 ("elfcompress: New utility.")
> [...]  
> diff --git a/src/elfcompress.c b/src/elfcompress.c
> index 05f3bc2c..dacaff32 100644
> --- a/src/elfcompress.c
> +++ b/src/elfcompress.c
> @@ -1358,5 +1358,5 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
>    while (++remaining < argc);
>  
>    free_patterns ();
> -  return result;
> +  return !!result;
>  }

The change to return 1 (or zero) is good.

But could we instead initialize res to 1 (or EXIT_FAILURE from
stdlib.h) at the top? That reads IMHO a little nicer than the !!
pattern.

Thanks,

Mark


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-12 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-12 16:00 Dmitry V. Levin
2021-05-12 20:29 ` Mark Wielaard [this message]
2021-05-12 20:35   ` Dmitry V. Levin
2021-05-12 21:13     ` Mark Wielaard
2021-05-12 21:52       ` [PATCH v2] " Dmitry V. Levin
2021-05-13 13:44         ` Mark Wielaard

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