[nsd-users] nsd-xfer returning 1 on success?
Arnt Gulbrandsen
arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no
Fri Jul 17 12:33:32 UTC 2009
Matthijs Mekking writes:
> These particular lines where last touched 5 years ago, but my guess is
> that a way to differentiate between "zone up to date" (0) and
> "transfer succeeded" (1) was needed. Since both are not errors (but
> not both return the same value), more success return codes are
> needed.
>
> Do you think it make more sense to switch these two numbers?
IMNSHO this is a case where the users' needs do vary, so the default
could be to return 0 for all varieties of success, and return extra
error-like success codes if a command-line option like
--return-different-success-codes is specified.
Awful little problem.
Arnt
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