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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Fuzz-test exit status

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:51:20 -0800
On 12/13/13 1:35 PM, Evan Huus wrote:
> I want to change the exit status of the exit_error() function in
> test-common.sh from 1 to 255, as that is the value that will prevent
> xargs from processing further input. Currently running "... | xargs
> ./tools/fuzz-test.sh" will not stop on an error since xargs will catch
> it and just keep going.
> 
> I just wanted to check that this wouldn't cause problems (eg on the
> fuzz-bot) before making the change.

This shouldn't affect the fuzz-bots but if it does it should be easy
enough to fix.