Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/18] migration: add static analysis tool to check vmstate compat

[Amit Shah]

On (Tue) 17 Jun 2014 [07:34:07], Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/17/2014 07:19 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > v3:
> >  - Python script returns an error code: 0 if no errors, positive for
> >    the number of errors identified.
> 
> Returning the error count as $? is unreliable - if you have exactly 256
> errors, that gives the same status as if you had success.  Does your
> code guarantee non-zero return in that case?

No; any good ideas for this, then?  Just limit to 255, and never bump
upwards?

I'm only introducing this so that future integration with 'make check'
can be noticed by scripts.


                Amit