+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #597145 +++ 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. --- Additional comment from rjones on 2010-06-01 11:31:26 EDT --- 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.
Closing this. It's fixed in upstream and RHEL 6 but I highly doubt anyone cares about it in RHEL 5.