bin/143271: [patch] whatis(1) should print error message to stderr

Alexander Best arundel at freebsd.org
Sun Aug 1 21:40:06 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR bin/143271; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc: Jan Schaumann <jschauma at netmeister.org>
Subject: Re: bin/143271: [patch] whatis(1) should print error message to stderr
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 21:33:48 +0000

 i agree with the stdout/sterr issue.
 
 however i don't see why whatis'es return values should be altered. it's common practice to return 0 on success. so returning 0 if whatis recognizes the keyword is just fine.
 
 cheers.
 alex
 
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