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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,
	notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: [PATCH] cli/new: document new exit code
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 22:44:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161126024418.20996-1-david@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479759273-18010-1-git-send-email-jani@nikula.org>

It seems important to give the numeric return code for people writing
scripts. Hopefully deviations from this convention are rare.
---
 doc/man1/notmuch-new.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-new.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-new.rst
index 787ed78..7f0b223 100644
--- a/doc/man1/notmuch-new.rst
+++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-new.rst
@@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ Supported options for **new** include
     ``--quiet``
         Do not print progress or results.
 
+EXIT STATUS
+===========
+
+This command supports the following special exit status code
+
+``75 (EX_TEMPFAIL)``
+    A temporary failure occured; the user is invited to retry.
+
 SEE ALSO
 ========
 
-- 
2.10.2

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-26  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-04 12:46 [Paul Wise] Bug#843127: notmuch: race condition in `notmuch new`? David Bremner
2016-11-04 16:26 ` David Bremner
2016-11-13  1:51   ` Austin Clements
2016-11-14 18:44     ` J. Lewis Muir
2016-11-14 18:59       ` David Bremner
2016-11-04 18:47 ` Jani Nikula
2016-11-05  2:15   ` Paul Wise
2016-11-05 12:57     ` [PATCH] cli: consider files vanishing during notmuch new non-fatal Jani Nikula
2016-11-05 13:22       ` Paul Wise
2016-11-12 15:39         ` David Bremner
2016-11-12 16:04           ` Brian Sniffen
2016-11-12 16:10             ` David Bremner
2016-11-12 16:15               ` David Bremner
2016-11-12 21:08               ` Brian Sniffen
2016-11-12 21:36                 ` David Bremner
2016-11-12 20:35             ` Jani Nikula
2016-11-16 11:43       ` David Bremner
2016-11-21 20:14         ` [PATCH v2] " Jani Nikula
2016-11-26  2:44           ` David Bremner [this message]
2016-11-26  9:17             ` [PATCH] cli/new: document new exit code Jani Nikula
2016-11-26  9:18               ` [PATCH] test: check the handling of files vanishing between scandir and indexing Jani Nikula
2016-11-27  9:59                 ` [PATCH v2] " Jani Nikula
2016-11-29  2:16                   ` David Bremner
2016-11-29  7:31                     ` Tomi Ollila
2016-12-03 11:24                   ` David Bremner

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