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From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ar exit code?
Date: Tue,  9 Mar 2004 12:43:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d7975749d2e7878d2ac73fbc30065684@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <05b901c405d2$88b4ae30$67844051@SOMA>

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no, ar itself doesn't exit with error status if dupfound
stops it from updating the archive.  easy to fix, and it
seems the right thing to me to change it.

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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ar exit code?
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 13:32:04 +0100
Message-ID: <05b901c405d2$88b4ae30$67844051@SOMA>

> If ar is to create a new archive, but failed because of duplicate symbols,
> it exists with success; mk continues and it is hard to notice untill too
> late.
> 
> Is it as it was intended?

mk differs from make in that the whole block of commands
is sent to rc, rather than forking a shell for each command.

that might be the problem.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-09 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-09 10:12 David Tolpin
2004-03-09 12:32 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-09 12:43   ` C H Forsyth [this message]
2004-03-09 13:07     ` boyd, rounin

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