[bug #17135] ps's return value

[Thomas Schwinge]

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                 Summary: ps's return value
                 Project: The GNU Hurd
            Submitted by: tschwinge
            Submitted on: Monday 07/17/06 at 12:03
                Category: Hurd
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Reproducibility: None
              Size (loc): None
         Planned Release: None
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

11:04 < azeem> hmm, ps returns a zero exit status if there is no applicable
process for ps -p
11:04 < azeem> mbanck@beethoven:~$ ps -p 23
11:04 < azeem> ps: No applicable processes
11:04 < azeem> mbanck@beethoven:~$ echo $?
11:04 < azeem> 0
11:04 < azeem> Linux returns 1 in that case:
11:04 < azeem> castor~$ ps -p 24
11:04 < azeem>   PID TTY          TIME CMD
11:04 < azeem> castor~$ echo $?
11:04 < azeem> 1







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