Re: [PATCH BlueZ 0/6] Make commands return exit status

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Hi Eramoto,

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 8:38 AM, ERAMOTO Masaya
<eramoto.masaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Luiz,
>
> On 03/26/2018 10:26 PM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote:
>> Hi Eramoto,
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 11:25 AM, ERAMOTO Masaya
>> <eramoto.masaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Commands always return 0 as exit status in non-interactive mode. This
>>> patch set makes them return the exit_status variable as exit status.
>>>
>>> Note:
>>>   This patch set does not include the following fix for meshctl, due to
>>>   conflict with Inga's patch ("mesh/meshctl: Exit cleanly if start up
>>>   fails")[1]. I will send a rebased fix after merging Inga's patch to
>>>   BlueZ master branch.
>>>
>>>   [1]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg75020.html
>>
>> So here is the concern the exit status or the memory leaks, because
>> the latter is not really a problem if the process will be terminated
>> all the resources will be freed anyway so calling bt_shell_cleanup
>> seems pointless in this regard. The status seems alright as I can see
>> it being used with scripts that may parse the exit status.
>
> bluetoothctl etc. always return 0 except calling exit(), since
> bt_shell_run() does not return value even if a subcommand fails.
> Because it is hard for scripts to handle them whose exit status is 0
> if they hit any unexpected problem, they are not convenient on
> non-interactive mode.
>
> This patch set makes bt_shell_run() return EXIT_SUCCESS/EXIT_FAILURE or
> error code, and bluetoothctl etc. be able to pass the status to scripts.

Applied, thanks.
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