Bug#259865: ssh: exit status of the ssh client is different from what's described in the man page

[Florian Zumbiehl <florz@gmx.de>]

Package: ssh
Version: 1:3.4p1-1.woody.3
Severity: normal

| florz@florz:~$ ssh -p222 rain ; echo $?
| ssh: connect to address 192.168.0.1 port 222: Connection refused
| 1

However, man ssh says:

| ssh exits with the exit status of the remote command or with 255 if
| an error occurred.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux florz 2.4.24 #3 Fri Feb 13 12:06:53 CET 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE

Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii  adduser                3.47              Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                1.0.32            Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.2.5-11.5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules         0.72-35           Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g               0.72-35           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libssl0.9.6            0.9.6c-2.woody.6  SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0               7.6-9             Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.1.4-1.0woody0 compression library - runtime