[Samba] smbget returns wrong exit code

Jason Schaefer js at jasonschaefer.com
Mon Mar 8 10:55:37 MST 2010


> found the same behavior using smbget with errornous parameters. Maybe it
> should do so: return not the error code but the count of files it got?
> Although that would be really strange...
>
> cu jth

No, its just that the exit status is reversed from the standard.
Successful completion should return 0 and unsuccessful should return
1. I see it as a bug. Exit status only has values of 0-255. So file
count is out :-)


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