Re: Exit status geting set on zip -uf on AIX when nothing to do

In the last episode (Feb 06), Wayne Johnson said:
> I have a build process that runs on several systems (Windows, AIX and
> Solaris).  In this process, we run make that has a zip -uj command.  
> 
> Yesterday, out of the blue, this process started returning and error
> code of 12 when there was nothing to update.  There were no error
> messages, just an exit status of 12.  If I gave it something to
> update, it worked fine.  It also continues to return a normal value
> (0) on the other platforms when nothing is done.

Hm. I'd say there's a bug in zip on the other platforms, since the zip
manpage reads:

  DIAGNOSTICS
       The exit status (or error  level)  approximates  the  exit
       codes defined by PKWARE and takes on the following values,
       except under VMS:
  ...
              12     zip has nothing to do

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