[Pkg-shadow-devel] [PATCH] send --help output to stdout
Nicolas François
nicolas.francois at centraliens.net
Sun Aug 30 20:33:33 UTC 2009
Hello,
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 07:26:33AM -0400, vapier at gentoo.org wrote:
> If someone uses the -h/--help options, the usage should not go to stderr
> nor should the utility exit with non-zero status. All of the shadow utils
> do just this unfortunately, so convert them over to sanity.
It's still not applied, but I agree that this should be sent to stdout.
I will keep the prototype declaration as I have some tools complaining
when a function is defined with no prior declaration, and it is just
easier to keep the prototype than configure all the checker tools.
Thanks for the patch.
Best Regards,
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Nekral
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