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28.0.50; TRAMP process-file ignores exit status of remote process

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 41099-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>,
 Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#41099: 28.0.50; TRAMP process-file ignores exit status of
 remote process
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 21:42:03 +0200

Am Sa., 23. Mai 2020 um 21:35 Uhr schrieb Michael Albinus
<michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>:
>
> Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Philipp,
>
> > To be fair, I care far more about the initial bug report (correct
> > treatment of exit codes below 128). Many programs follow the
> > convention to treat small nonzero exit codes as "expected" errors
> > (e.g. grep: 1 means no match found) and higher exit codes as
> > "unexpected" errors. In that light a distinction between small exit
> > codes is more important than trying to achieve 100% correctness when
> > it comes to signals. So I'm definitely fine with adding a
> > customization option: anything better would likely be more complex
> > than is warranted.
>
> Thanks for the feedback. Since the user option has been added already, I
> believe we could regard this bug as solved entirely.

Agreed.

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