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Subject: Re: Bug for sv status in lsb mode
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Mathieu Poumeyrol wrote:

>> > What makes you think that sv status should return non-zero if the service 
>> > is down? I see nothing to suggest that here:
>> > 
>> > http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/sv.8.html
>> 
>> It's not explicit here, but required for LSB compliance.
>> 
>> see 
>> http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html
>> 
>> As a matter of fact, sv code looks like it is meant to achieve this, but 
>> fails because of the side effect on the "r" global.
>
> Sorry, it is actually explicit in the "Exit codes" last paragraph...
>
> If the command is status, it exits 3 if the service is down, and 4 if the 
> status is unknown. It exits 2 on wrong usage, and 151 on error.

Indeed. Sorry for not reading that more carefully myself.