bugfindutils - Bugs: bug #20891, exit status enhancement for xargs

 
 

bug #20891: exit status enhancement for xargs

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sat 25 Aug 2007 02:01:34 AM UTC
Votes: 80
 
Category:  xargs Severity:  1 - Wish
Item Group:  None Status:  Wont Fix
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  jay
Originator Name:  Philip Rowlands Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  None
Fixed Release:  None
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Sun 19 May 2024 12:20:15 PM UTC, comment #5: 

This is not answer-is-no-forever.  If you can come up with a usable scheme which doesn't cause compatibility issues we can discuss this further.

 James Youngman <jay>
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Sun 19 May 2024 12:18:43 PM UTC, comment #4: 

If the current behaviour complies with POSIX, I don't think there is a bug to fix here.

Probably, any convenience gained by changing this is obviated by the incompatibility caused by the change.

 James Youngman <jay>
Group administrator
Tue 05 Nov 2013 09:21:33 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Why this is waiting from 2007y ? it is 6 years!
This is strongly recommended improove exit codes. Unfortunately we chould save old beavior. What is my opinion:

1. add another option for switch on new exit code table
2. for exitcodes 0 to 123, xargs should check the biggest one from execution and return this
3. code 255 should be routed as is without mapping to 144. this is unneeded. who use them?
4. exitcode 1, unusable at now. map this to 124.

and should be add another option, when command returns any 'disaster' exits, script programmer could decide break or continue xargs execution.

Grzegorz Szyszlo <znik>
Sun 26 Jul 2009 11:30:02 PM UTC, comment #2: 

If you had indicated who you were, O Anonymous, I could have helped you better I think.  But anyway, I can't reproducte the problem I think you're describing with findutils 4.4.0 or 4.5.6-git.

~$ echo a b c | xargs false ; echo $?
123

James Youngman <jay>
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Thu 23 Jul 2009 05:27:17 PM UTC, comment #1: 

It seems incompatible with other platforms' xargs implementation as well as even the find, that if the command formed by xarg encounters an error, no error status is returned. I will file a bug.

 Anonymous
Sat 25 Aug 2007 02:01:34 AM UTC, original submission:  

Please consider providing an option to govern the exit status passed by xargs from the subprocessses which it launches.

Alternative modes to the current behaviour might include returning the maximum exit status, the minimum, or the bitwise OR.

 Anonymous

 

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bugsReturn status 126, 127 are incorrectly interpreted by xargs (bug #22708, Fixed)

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2024-05-19 jay StatusNone Wont Fix
        Assigned toNone jay
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2013-11-05 znik Carbon-Copy- Added znik
    2013-09-29 jay Severity3 - Normal 1 - Wish
    2008-03-24 jay Dependencies- Depends on bugs #22708

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