Re: I want to report a bug in the program tryto from socklog package. When exactly the last run of the c

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:21:49AM +0200, David Le?ka wrote:
> I want to report a bug in the program tryto from socklog package. When
> exactly the last run of the child program succeds, tryto reports that
> child was not succeeded.
> For example if somebody run command:
> tryto -n 1 /bin/true
> tryto reports the message:
> tryto: fatal: child crashed, giving up.
> It is nonsense, because /bin/true must always succeed.
> When somebody use -n 2 switch and the first run of the child is
> unsuccesfull but second run of the child is succesfull, the message
> appears also. The same for the -n 3, -n 4, etc. I often use -n 1 switch
> because I want a program to be run no more than once. I include a simple
> patch correcting the problem. I noticed that author uses "rc" variable
> to store both child exit code and  return code of tryto but it is not
> good in the case child returns some of the tryto reserved values (111
> and 100). I think using two variables "rc" and "child_rc" may improve
> reliability of the program slightly.

Hi David, thanks for the report.  I can confirm the bug, and try to
release a new version with a fix soon.

Regards, Gerrit.