misc/143271: whatis(1) should print error message to stderr

[Jan Schaumann]

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

From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma at netmeister.org>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/143271: whatis(1) should print error message to stderr
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:40:07 -0500

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 Additionally, whatis(1) returns 0 if nothing appropriate was found.  It
 should return 1.  Apparently that would confuse 'man -k', so one way to
 do this would be:
 
 # man -k complains if exit_nomatch=1 and no keyword matched
 if expr "${0}" : ".*whatis" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
         exit_nomatch=1
 else
         exit_nomatch=0
 fi
 exit_error=2
 
 
 
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