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

[Jan Schaumann]

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

From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma at netmeister.org>
To: Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/143271: [patch] whatis(1) should print error message to
	stderr
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 18:30:28 -0400

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 Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> wrote:
 =20
 > 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.
 
 The problem is that whatis(1) returns 0 even if it does NOT find
 anything, which should be an error condition.
 
 $ whatis oink
 oink: nothing appropriate
 $ echo $?
 0
 $=20
 
 -Jan
 
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