[B.A.T.M.A.N.] batctl ping exit status

Hi all, I'm working on a simple script that check if node is connected. The scope of this script is make every node able to autorescue in case of change channel on some gateway node. To do this check if i'm not a gateway try to ping my gateway ipaddress then if it not respond try to batctl ping my gateway mac and than if not respond for a number of tries the node try to find another channell with the same bssid. The problem is that batct ping every time exit with status 0 istead of behaviour of ping command that exit with 1 if ping fail. At this time I have to use some regex to check if batctl ping status command. It is possible to fix batctl ping to work such as ping command?

Rgds