[8460] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.3P: hesinfo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (drmorris@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 23 05:08:27 1991
From: drmorris@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 91 05:09:25 EDT
System name: e40-008-7
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.3P (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
hesinfo something that doesn't have hesiod information.
What's wrong:
hesinfo now prints "Hesiod name not found". This is interesting
when combined with the -l flag:
% hesinfo -l drmorris pobox
resolves to
nothing
Hesiod name not found
%
It told me that my name wasn't found, twice (well, once to stdout and
once to stderr...covering all bases, aren't we)!
What should have happened:
IMHO, hesinfo should keep its old behavior. I think the problem
stems from considering a hes error of HES_ER_NOTFOUND as an program
level error that should be reported as such. Sometimes, I want to to
use hesinfo to determine whether an entry exists.
Either give me the record, or give me nothing. Or maybe a -q
flag which does this. In any case, the double error reporting seems
questionable.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
man hesinfo
