The following reply was made to PR bin/143271; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Jan Schaumann <jscha...@netmeister.org>
To: Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-follo...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/143271: [patch] whatis(1) should print error message to
stderr
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 18:30:28 -0400
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Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org> wrote:
=20
> however i don't see why whatis'es return values should be altered.
> it's common practice to return 0 on success. so returning 0 if whatis
> recognizes the keyword is just fine.
The problem is that whatis(1) returns 0 even if it does NOT find
anything, which should be an error condition.
$ whatis oink
oink: nothing appropriate
$ echo $?
0
$=20
-Jan
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