Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] objtool: Exit successfully when requesting help

From: Matt Helsley
Date: Mon May 18 2020 - 14:33:37 EST


On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 02:52:53PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:35:09AM -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> > When the user requests help it's not an error so do not exit with
> > a non-zero exit code. This is not especially useful for a user but
> > any script that might wish to check that objtool --help is at least
> > available can't rely on the exit code to crudely check that, for
> > example building an objtool executable succeeds.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <mhelsley@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/objtool/objtool.c | 5 ++++-
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/objtool/objtool.c b/tools/objtool/objtool.c
> > index 0b3528f05053..593ec85915a9 100644
> > --- a/tools/objtool/objtool.c
> > +++ b/tools/objtool/objtool.c
> > @@ -58,7 +58,10 @@ static void cmd_usage(void)
> >
> > printf("\n");
> >
> > - exit(129);
> > + if (!help)
> > + exit(129);
> > + else
> > + exit(0);
>
> Looks fine, though the 'else' isn't needed.

OK, removed the 'else'.

Cheers,
-Matt Helsley