On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 07:20:11AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
>> commit 46528f78e5c(debian, rhel, xenserver: Ability to collect ovs-ctl logs)
>> made changes in the startup scripts such that the o/p of ovs-ctl is logged
>> into ovs-ctl.log. But it had an unintended consequence that the exit status
>> of ovs-ctl was no longer returned. We would always return success(the exit
>> status of tee).
>>
>> With this commit, we return the exit status of ovs-ctl instead of tee.
>> Code referenced from: (line wrapped).
>> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14270/\
>> get-exit-status-of-process-thats-piped-to-another/70675#70675)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <[email protected]>
>> Co-authored-by: Duffie Cooley <[email protected]>
>
> I'd like to see a reference to that URL in a comment in the shell
> script itself, as well as a sentence or so explaining WTF the code
> does.  Maybe:
>
> # Tee ovs-ctl output to ovs-ctl.log and yield ovs-ctl's exit status.
> # See 
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14270/get-exit-status-of-process-thats-piped-to-another/70675#70675)
>
> Then coming across this is less of a "WTF!" moment.

Okay. I will send a V3.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
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