Re: true,false: --version,--help exit code

[Pádraig Brady]

On 06/03/2014 04:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/03/2014 09:14 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
>> Or just leave it as is?
>> I.E. true can return false in the edge cases where it needs to.
> 
> I'm liking this idea more - and we can extend it to make 'false
> --version' return a different status for write failure than its normal
> always-1 status for successfully reporting false.

We can do that, though I'm not sure we should bother
since users would probably never need the separated values
for this extreme edge case.

>> I can fix up the test issues I noticed separately.
> 
> Yes, at this point, separating the test snafu of only covering the
> builtin from any change in exit status behavior is wise.

Attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.

true-false-tests.patch
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