| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
| Cc: | "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Linux start script updates |
| Date: | 2010-03-01 17:04:38 |
| Message-ID: | 19091.1267463078@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> Exactly. With Fedora respecting the standard in this regard, I'm
> convinced we should, too. In reviewing things based on Peter's
> question, I did start to have doubts about *not* special-casing
> "status" -- it has its own set of values and 5 is not assigned, so
> using it seems wrong. It seems like it should be 3 ("program is not
> running"). Agreed?
Probably. I think that in practice most scripts are not very tense
about this --- as long as the exit code is 0 or not-0 per spec, which
not-0 value is reported is not so exciting to most people.
regards, tom lane
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