I agree.

Over the years I've used and built dozens of utility programs that use the
error code return value to reflect various status values unrelated to the
basic utility operation. Typically 0 means "no problems", positive values
mean basic ops problem (serious operating errors), negative values mean
result status (operating normally).

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:45 AM, un_spoken <brucedickinson@...> wrote:

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> > You think wrong.
> >
> > Command line utilities set non-zero exit code if error happens in
> utility itself. So, even for havy corrupted database gfix will not set
> error code to non-zero if server can validate database and API call's
> returns without errors. Because *gfix itself* works without failure.
> >
>
> Actually it is totally up to the developer to decide what and in which
> circumstances an exit code will be returned.
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