a.piesk@??? wrote:
>
>a scanner could die without returning any output. scanner's malfunction or
>segfault or whatever.
>how should that be handled? the av_cmdline stuff must be as generic as
>possible. so i think, treating no output as error is the safest way.
No output is a traditional Unix way of indicating success. What's
wrong with using the exit status?
Tony.
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