Bug 597145 - guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command
Summary: guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libguestfs
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
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Blocks: 598771 598772
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Reported: 2010-05-28 08:54 UTC by Jinxin Zheng
Modified: 2011-07-14 19:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
: 598771 598772 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2011-07-14 19:12:24 UTC
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Description Jinxin Zheng 2010-05-28 08:54:40 UTC
Description of problem:
Issueing the 'help' command in guestfish with an unknown command name exits 
with a 0 exit code.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
guestfish 1.3.17

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. guestfish help foo
2. echo $?
3.
  
Actual results:
the exit status of guestfish is 0

Expected results:
supposed to be some other than 0 to indicate an error.

Additional info:
I wanted to use help to test the availability of some new commands in a script, 
finding that it's impossible to determine only from the exit status of guestfish.
Therefore I must test the stderr in order to work the result out.

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-06-01 15:31:26 UTC
Patch posted upstream:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-June/msg00013.html

Please clone this bug if you want this in RHEL 5/6.  It's a relatively
simple change to backport.

Comment 2 Jinxin Zheng 2010-06-02 02:18:46 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Patch posted upstream:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-June/msg00013.html
> 
> Please clone this bug if you want this in RHEL 5/6.  It's a relatively
> simple change to backport.    

Cloned as #598771 and #598772 since this is a simple change.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-06-02 21:12:24 UTC
libguestfs-1.2.9-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.9-1.el5

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-06-02 21:26:10 UTC
libguestfs-1.2.9-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.9-1.fc13

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-06-03 08:48:49 UTC
libguestfs-1.2.9-1.el5.1 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.9-1.el5.1


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