Re: Bug#4974: Bug in dpkg Version: 1.4.0.3
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Chris Fearnley wrote:
> >It seems clear that dpkg returns a zero error code for both the failure
> >and the success. This is not correct.
>
> $ dpkg -I foo
> dpkg-deb: failed to read archive `foo': No such file or directory
> $ echo $?
> 2
Ahah! A third error code is heard.
>
> I don't know why your perl script fails. I'm using dpkg-1.4.0.3.
>
My code was only expecting two states for the error code when there are
three. Are there more? Are they documented? I arrived at my values by
experiment ;-)
Thanks,
Dwarf
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