error code question

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Saturday 14 November 2009 06:27, Christopher Barry wrote:
> Q: does BB fsck use these error codes? (taken from fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009))
> man 8 fsck
> 
> The exit code returned by fsck is the sum of the following conditions:
>             0    - No errors
>             1    - File system errors corrected
>             2    - System should be rebooted
>             4    - File system errors left uncorrected
>             8    - Operational error
>             16   - Usage or syntax error
>             32   - Fsck canceled by user request
>             128  - Shared library error
> The exit code returned when multiple file systems are checked is the bit-wise OR of  the  exit  codes  for
> each file system that is checked.

bbox's fsck is just a driver program. It runs fsck.<fstype>
and ORs result codes. So if fsck.<fstype> adhere to that convention,
bbox fsck should be ok.
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