[PATCH] Return error code in case of invalid command line option

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Wed Sep 3 17:38:20 PDT 2014


On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 11:29:17AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Currently kexec returns success even if an invalid command line option
> is encountered. Kexec currently prints usage message and then returns
> 0. That's not right. It is an error and error code 1 should be returned.
> 
> Due to this wrapper script thinks that kdump succeeded but that's not
> the case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>

Thanks, applied.

> ---
>  kexec/kexec.c |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> Index: kexec-tools/kexec/kexec.c
> ===================================================================
> --- kexec-tools.orig/kexec/kexec.c	2014-08-28 15:36:17.563115135 -0400
> +++ kexec-tools/kexec/kexec.c	2014-09-03 11:19:46.505871590 -0400
> @@ -1209,6 +1209,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>  				  options, 0)) != -1) {
>  		switch(opt) {
>  		case '?':
> +			usage();
> +			return 1;
>  		case OPT_HELP:
>  			usage();
>  			return 0;
> 



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