[coreboot] r3908 - trunk/util/flashrom

[svn at coreboot.org]

Author: stuge
Date: 2009-01-26 03:20:56 +0100 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009)
New Revision: 3908

Modified:
   trunk/util/flashrom/README
   trunk/util/flashrom/flashrom.8
Log:
flashrom: Document exit() codes introduced in r3907.

Signed-off-by: Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se>
Acked-by: Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org>


Modified: trunk/util/flashrom/README
===================================================================
--- trunk/util/flashrom/README	2009-01-26 02:04:19 UTC (rev 3907)
+++ trunk/util/flashrom/README	2009-01-26 02:20:56 UTC (rev 3908)
@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@
  is that flash info is dumped and the flash chip is set to writable.
 
 
+Exit status
+-----------
+flashrom exits with 0 on success, 1 on most failures but with 2 if /dev/mem
+(/dev/xsvc on Solaris) can not be opened and with 3 if a call to mmap() fails.
+
+
 coreboot Table and Mainboard Identification
 --------------------------------------------
 

Modified: trunk/util/flashrom/flashrom.8
===================================================================
--- trunk/util/flashrom/flashrom.8	2009-01-26 02:04:19 UTC (rev 3907)
+++ trunk/util/flashrom/flashrom.8	2009-01-26 02:20:56 UTC (rev 3908)
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@
 .TP
 .B "\-R, \-\-version"
 Show version information and exit.
+.SH EXIT STATUS
+flashrom exits with 0 on success, 1 on most failures but with 2 if /dev/mem
+(/dev/xsvc on Solaris) can not be opened and with 3 if a call to mmap() fails.
 .SH BUGS
 Please report any bugs at
 .BR http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/newticket ","