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	Hello, this is Jun-ichiro ITOH, from Tokyo.

On Mon, 27 Oct 1992 01:31:29 JST, sti@phantom.cs.hut.fi (Sami-Jaakko Tikka) said:

sti> Is there a rational logic behind the exit value of elvis under SunOS
sti> 4.1.2.?

sti> I hate it when elvis sometimes decides to exit with an exit value 1
sti> instead of 0 although I haven't done anything offensive.  Quite many
sti> programs which start elvis for me to do my editing seem to think
sti> something failed because elvis exited with 1.

sti> I know I could write a wrapper script which would always exit 0 but I
sti> would first like to know if there is a reason for elvis's normal
sti> behaviour.

	The return value '1' means "elvis did overwrite operation onto
	file."
	If you don't like this, patch TMP.C as following:

---
in function tmpsave(): comment out these 4 lines

	if (!strcmp(origname, filename))
	{
		exitcode |= 1;
	}
---

	Same problem occurs when you use ELVIS 1.6 on 386bsd.
	When we do 'vipw' for passwd editing, vipw will fail when
	elvis returns '1'.  The patch above can also be used to fix the
	problem.

	I hope this information can help you.  Thank you.
--
itojun@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp(Jun-ichiro ITOH)
	Keio Univ.    Faculty of Science and Technology
	Department of Computer Science      Tokoro Lab.