Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH XTF 2/3] xtf-runner: provide a set of exit codes for different states

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 05:27:24PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH XTF 2/3] xtf-runner: provide a set of exit codes for 
> different states"):
> > +# Return the exit code for different states.
> > +# Avoid using 1 and 2 because python interpreter uses them.
> 
> Python generates `2' too ?  That's quite exciting.  When ?
> 

There is vague description on this:

sys.exit([arg])
...
Unix programs generally use 2 for command line syntax errors and 1 for
all other kind of errors. If another type of object is passed, None is
...

It doesn't explicitly say the interpreter uses 2. But we'd better err on
the safe side.

Wei.

> Ian.

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