At 19:14 4/01/01 -0600, Matthew wrote: >I posted a note to the hackers list about this very issue last week. It was >never responded to. I am prepared to do the work and submit a patch, but I >wanted some input on how best to do it. We had a problem with a backup >script silently failing when the disk was full. I guess I will get started >on it and will get feedback on the patch when it's submitted. 7.0.2 and CVS seem to set $? for me...at least when I try to dump a nonexistant DB, dump to a nonexistant location or dump to an area I have no privs for. Also, the code looks like it does an exit(1) whenever there is an error. Is there a Unix/C/shell interaction that's not working for you? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Warner | __---_____ Albatross Consulting Pty. Ltd. |----/ - \ (A.B.N. 75 008 659 498) | /(@) ______---_ Tel: (+61) 0500 83 82 81 | _________ \ Fax: (+61) 0500 83 82 82 | ___________ | Http://www.rhyme.com.au | / \| | --________-- PGP key available upon request, | / and from pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371 |/