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0001492 [1003.1(2016/18)/Issue7+TC2] Shell and Utilities Objection Clarification Requested 2021-07-29 13:53 2021-12-13 15:23
Reporter geoffclare View Status public  
Assigned To
Priority normal Resolution Accepted As Marked  
Status Applied  
Name Geoff Clare
Organization The Open Group
User Reference
Section 1.4 Utility Description Defaults
Page Number 2341
Line Number 74538
Interp Status ---
Final Accepted Text See Note: 0005439.
Summary 0001492: clarify what "successful completion" means in EXIT STATUS
Description There are some utilities for which the EXIT STATUS section describes exit status 0 as "Successful completion", but the utility is required to perform more than one action, meaning it is unclear whether all of those actions must succeed in order for the exit status to be 0.

The suggested change is to require that it means all actions must succeed, but also to stop using "Successful completion" for some utilities where this would not be appropriate.
Desired Action On page 2341 line 74538 section 1.4 Utility Description Defaults, add to the end of EXIT STATUS:
Default Behavior: When the description of exit status 0 is ``Successful completion'', it means that exit status 0 shall indicate that all of the actions the utility is required to perform were completed successfully.

On page 2870 line 94579 section jobs, after:
When jobs reports the termination status of a job, the shell shall remove its process ID from the list of those ``known in the current shell execution environment''; see [xref to 2.9.3.1].
add:
If a write error occurs when jobs writes to standard output, some process IDs might have been removed from the list but not successfully reported.

On page 2872 line 94663 section jobs, change:
0 Successful completion
to:
0 The output specified in STDOUT was successfully written to standard output.

On page 2873 line 94704 section jobs, add to RATIONALE:
If jobs uses buffered writes to standard output, a write error could be detected when attempting to flush a buffer containing multiple reports of terminated jobs, resulting in some unreported jobs having their process IDs removed from the list of those known in the current shell execution environment (because they were removed when the report was added to the buffer).

On page 2982 line 99046 section make (EXIT STATUS with -q), change:
0 Successful completion

1 The target was not up-to-date.
to:
0 All specified targets were already up-to-date.

1 One or more targets were not up-to-date.

On page 2983 line 99050 section make (EXIT STATUS without -q), change:
0 Successful completion

>0 An error occurred.
to:
0 All specified targets were already up-to-date, or all commands executed to bring targets up-to-date either exited with status 0 or had a non-zero exit status that was specified (via the -i option, the special target .IGNORE, or a '-' command prefix) to be ignored.

>0 An error occurred, or at least one command executed to bring a target up-to-date exited with a non-zero exit status that was not specified to be ignored.

Tags tc3-2008
Attached Files

- Relationships
related to 0001495Applied Exit status 0 for the at utility needs rewriting 
related to 0001497Applied Exit status 0 for the dd utility needs changing 

-  Notes
(0005439)
geoffclare (manager)
2021-08-12 11:04

I have noticed that the EXIT STATUS section for uniq uses a different wording for what amounts to the same thing as "Successful completion". In order for the updated default requirement to apply to uniq, it needs to use exactly matching wording. Therefore, in addition to the desired action we should make the following change:

On page 3347 line 112747 section uniq, change:
The utility executed successfully.
to:
Successful completion.

- Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2021-07-29 13:53 geoffclare New Issue
2021-07-29 13:53 geoffclare Name => Geoff Clare
2021-07-29 13:53 geoffclare Organization => The Open Group
2021-07-29 13:53 geoffclare Section => 1.4 Utility Description Defaults
2021-07-29 13:53 geoffclare Page Number => 2341
2021-07-29 13:53 geoffclare Line Number => 74538
2021-07-29 13:53 geoffclare Interp Status => ---
2021-07-30 15:25 geoffclare Relationship added related to 0001495
2021-08-05 14:25 geoffclare Relationship added related to 0001497
2021-08-12 11:04 geoffclare Note Added: 0005439
2021-11-18 17:24 Don Cragun Final Accepted Text => See Note: 0005439.
2021-11-18 17:24 Don Cragun Status New => Resolved
2021-11-18 17:24 Don Cragun Resolution Open => Accepted As Marked
2021-11-18 17:26 Don Cragun Tag Attached: tc3-2008
2021-12-13 15:23 geoffclare Status Resolved => Applied


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