Re: bin/51878: db(1) 'quiet' mode does not exit according to documented behavior

To: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
Subject: Re: bin/51878: db(1) 'quiet' mode does not exit according to documented behavior
From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 04:22:52 +0700

    Date:        Mon, 16 Jan 2017 07:47:10 +1100
    From:        matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <7046.1484513230%splode.eterna.com.au@localhost>

  | i would rather that quite mode *did* return an error in this case,
  | as it is the only way to know it didn't work.

I agree.   It is easy to ignore the error code if you don't care,
but otherwise impossible to use the utility as a quiet predicate.

kre

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- re: bin/51878: db(1) 'quiet' mode does not exit according to documented behavior
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