I committed the patch. Thank you Ravi.

+1 overall. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment
http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12443038/HADOOP-6701-trunk.patch
against trunk revision 938788.

+1 @author. The patch does not contain any @author tags.

+1 tests included. The patch appears to include 3 new or modified tests.

+1 javadoc. The javadoc tool did not generate any warning messages.

+1 javac. The applied patch does not increase the total number of javac compiler warnings.

+1 findbugs. The patch does not introduce any new Findbugs warnings.

+1 release audit. The applied patch does not increase the total number of release audit warnings.

+1 core tests. The patch passed core unit tests.

+1 contrib tests. The patch passed contrib unit tests.

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This patch changes exit codes returned from chmod, chgrp and chown operations

• Old Behavior of chmod,chown,chgrp operation.
  • If operation is successful then - exit code 0 and no error message.
  • If operation is unsuccessful then - exit code 0 and error message printed.

     
    *If files does not exist and with globbed input*
    [rphulari@statepick-lm]> bin/hadoop fs -chmod 777 st*; echo $?
    0
    
    *If files does not exist without globbed input*
    [rphulari@statepick-lm]> bin/hadoop fs -chmod 777 st; echo $?
    chmod: could not get status for 'st': File does not exist: st
    0
    
    *If user does not have permission to change file-permission*
    ravi@localhost:~$ hadoop dfs -chgrp abcd /; echo $?
    chgrp: changing ownership of
    'hdfs://localhost/':org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied
    0
    
    *If user does not have permission to change file-permission*
    ravi@localhost:~$ hadoop dfs -chown abcd /; echo $?
    chown: changing ownership of
    'hdfs://localhost/':org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied
    0
    
    *If user has permission to change file-permission and file does not exist*
    ravi@localhost:~$ hadoop dfs -chmod 755 /DOESNTEXIST; echo $?
    chmod: could not get status for '/DOESNTEXIST': File does not exist: /DOESNTEXIST
    0
    

• New Behavior of chmod,chown,chgrp operation.
  • If operation is successful then - exit code 0 is returned and no error message.
  • If operation is unsuccessful then - exit code 1 is returned and error message printed.

 
*If file does not exist*
[rphulari@lm]> bin/hadoop fs -chown rphulari:users est; echo $?
chown: could not get status for 'est': File does not exist: est
1

*If files does not exist and with globbed input*
[rphulari@statepick-lm]> bin/hadoop fs -chown rphulari:users est\*; echo $?
chown: could not get status for 'est*'
1

*If file exist and operation is successful*
[rphulari@statepick-lm]> bin/hadoop fs -chmod 700 test; echo $?
0


*If file/dir with glob pattern exits and operation is successful*
[rphulari@statepick-lm]> bin/hadoop fs -chmod 777 test*; echo $?
0
[rphulari@statepick-lm]> bin/hadoop fs -ls 
Found 2 items
-rw-rw-rw-   1 admin    supergroup          0 2010-04-15 13:54 /user/rphulari/t
drwxrwxrwx   - rphulari userss              0 2010-03-30 23:39 /user/rphulari/test

Unchanged behavior - need to be fixed in different Jira
Because following bug is due to Permissions code we will change it in separate Jira .

 
*If user does not have permission to change file-permission*
ravi@localhost:~$ hadoop dfs -chown abcd /; echo $?
chown: changing ownership of
'hdfs://localhost/':org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied
0

+1 for the patch.

Patch for 0.20.

This fix will change the way ch(mod/own/grp) returns exit codes.

Failure to execute chmod, chown, chgrp commands will return non zero exit code with an error message.

Patch for trunk .

Attaching patch for hadoop 20.s .

Attaching patch to fix exit codes for fs -ch(own/mod/grp). Patch includes unit tests for theses issues.

This patch does not fix bug for incorrect exit code when wild card input is given to the fs -ch(own/mod/grp).
There is bug in FsShell.java which causes incorrect exit codes when wildcard inputs are given to -ch* commands.

 for (int i=startIndex; i<args.length; i++) {
      Path srcPath = new Path(args[i]);
      FileSystem srcFs = srcPath.getFileSystem(getConf());
      Path[] paths = FileUtil.stat2Paths(srcFs.globStatus(srcPath), srcPath);
      for(Path path : paths) {
        try {

I will open new Jira to fix this issue.

Looks like the patch is incomplete because it the case with chmod. The other two seem intact to me.

Attaching patch for trunk.

Attaching simple patch for fixing exit codes for -ch(mod/grp/own) commands.