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ID | Category | Severity | Type | Date Submitted | Last Update | ||
0001492 | [1003.1(2016/18)/Issue7+TC2] Shell and Utilities | Objection | Clarification Requested | 2021-07-29 13:53 | 2024-06-11 09:07 | ||
Reporter | geoffclare | View Status | public | ||||
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Priority | normal | Resolution | Accepted As Marked | ||||
Status | Closed | ||||||
Name | Geoff Clare | ||||||
Organization | The Open Group | ||||||
User Reference | |||||||
Section | 1.4 Utility Description Defaults | ||||||
Page Number | 2341 | ||||||
Line Number | 74538 | ||||||
Interp Status | --- | ||||||
Final Accepted Text | See Note: 0005439. | ||||||
Summary | 0001492: clarify what "successful completion" means in EXIT STATUS | ||||||
Description |
There are some utilities for which the EXIT STATUS section describes exit status 0 as "Successful completion", but the utility is required to perform more than one action, meaning it is unclear whether all of those actions must succeed in order for the exit status to be 0. The suggested change is to require that it means all actions must succeed, but also to stop using "Successful completion" for some utilities where this would not be appropriate. |
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Desired Action |
On page 2341 line 74538 section 1.4 Utility Description Defaults, add to the end of EXIT STATUS:Default Behavior: When the description of exit status 0 is ``Successful completion'', it means that exit status 0 shall indicate that all of the actions the utility is required to perform were completed successfully. On page 2870 line 94579 section jobs, after: When jobs reports the termination status of a job, the shell shall remove its process ID from the list of those ``known in the current shell execution environment''; see [xref to 2.9.3.1].add: If a write error occurs when jobs writes to standard output, some process IDs might have been removed from the list but not successfully reported. On page 2872 line 94663 section jobs, change: 0 Successful completionto: 0 The output specified in STDOUT was successfully written to standard output. On page 2873 line 94704 section jobs, add to RATIONALE: If jobs uses buffered writes to standard output, a write error could be detected when attempting to flush a buffer containing multiple reports of terminated jobs, resulting in some unreported jobs having their process IDs removed from the list of those known in the current shell execution environment (because they were removed when the report was added to the buffer). On page 2982 line 99046 section make (EXIT STATUS with -q), change: 0 Successful completionto: 0 All specified targets were already up-to-date. On page 2983 line 99050 section make (EXIT STATUS without -q), change: 0 Successful completionto: 0 All specified targets were already up-to-date, or all commands executed to bring targets up-to-date either exited with status 0 or had a non-zero exit status that was specified (via the -i option, the special target .IGNORE, or a '-' command prefix) to be ignored. |
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Tags | tc3-2008 | ||||||
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Issue History | |||
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
2021-07-29 13:53 | geoffclare | New Issue | |
2021-07-29 13:53 | geoffclare | Name | => Geoff Clare |
2021-07-29 13:53 | geoffclare | Organization | => The Open Group |
2021-07-29 13:53 | geoffclare | Section | => 1.4 Utility Description Defaults |
2021-07-29 13:53 | geoffclare | Page Number | => 2341 |
2021-07-29 13:53 | geoffclare | Line Number | => 74538 |
2021-07-29 13:53 | geoffclare | Interp Status | => --- |
2021-07-30 15:25 | geoffclare | Relationship added | related to 0001495 |
2021-08-05 14:25 | geoffclare | Relationship added | related to 0001497 |
2021-08-12 11:04 | geoffclare | Note Added: 0005439 | |
2021-11-18 17:24 | Don Cragun | Final Accepted Text | => See Note: 0005439. |
2021-11-18 17:24 | Don Cragun | Status | New => Resolved |
2021-11-18 17:24 | Don Cragun | Resolution | Open => Accepted As Marked |
2021-11-18 17:26 | Don Cragun | Tag Attached: tc3-2008 | |
2021-12-13 15:23 | geoffclare | Status | Resolved => Applied |
2024-06-11 09:07 | agadmin | Status | Applied => Closed |
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