On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 08:53:55AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:46:26AM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > Although the man page does not mention the exit status, I think
> > it's wrong that 'chcpu' exits OK when an action failed or
> > when a bad CPU number was specified:
> >
> > $ ./chcpu -d 0 ; echo $?
> > CPU 0 is not hot pluggable
> > 0
> >
> > $ ./chcpu -g 3 ; echo $?
> > CPU 3 is not configurable
> > 0
> >
> > $ ./chcpu -e 4 ; echo $?
> > CPU 4 does not exist
> > 0
> >
> > WDYT?
>
> The question is: what should chcpu return if it partially succeeded?
>
> # chcpu -d 3-4
> CPU 3 disabled
> CPU 4 does not exist
This is not so unusual situation, we have for example the same thing
in mount -a where
0 - success
32 - mount failure
64 - some mount succeeded
I think we can do something like this with chcpu, my suggestion is
0 - success
1 - failure
64 - partial success
Karel
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