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From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Cc: 'Johannes Sixt' <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, 'Joachim Schmitz' <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
Subject: Re: [BUG] test_must_fail: does not correctly detect failures - Was Git 2.16.0-rc2 Test Summary on NonStop
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 03:00:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180116030051.GA244260@genre.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001b01d38e0c$ba16e250$2e44a6f0$@nexbridge.com>

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:25:37AM -0500, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> On January 15, 2018 2:06 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > I take "die exits with non-zero" as a piece of information for the
> > *users* so that they can write "if perl foo.pl; then something; fi" in shell
> > scripts. I do *not* interpret it as leeway for implementers of perl to choose
> > any random value as exit code. Choosing 162 just to be funky would be
> > short-sighted. [I'm saying all this without knowing how perl specifies 'die'
> > beyond the paragraph you cited. Perhaps there's more about 'die' that
> > justifies exit code 162.] I'd say that the perl port is broken.
> 
> I agree that 162 is wrong. Its interpretation is 128+signal, which
> clearly does not happen in this case. On the platform, if the perl
> script is via stdin, 162 or 169 are returned. If via file (perl
> file.pl), 255 comes back. The port has issues. I have an opened a bug
> report with the platform developers. Usual non-Open Source timeframes
> to fix apply. ☹

I believe the standard behavior for Perl with die is the following:

exit $! if $!;
exit $? >> 8 if $? >> 8;
exit 255; # otherwise

Is there an errno value on your port that matches 162?  Maybe EBADF?

On Linux, I get the following:

genre ok % printf die | perl -; echo $?
Died at - line 1.
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-16  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-13 20:16 [BUG] test_must_fail: does not correctly detect failures - Was Git 2.16.0-rc2 Test Summary on NonStop Randall S. Becker
2018-01-14 16:50 ` Randall S. Becker
2018-01-14 18:40   ` Johannes Sixt
2018-01-14 21:32     ` Randall S. Becker
2018-01-15  2:37       ` Randall S. Becker
2018-01-15  7:05         ` Johannes Sixt
2018-01-15 14:25           ` Randall S. Becker
2018-01-16  3:00             ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2018-01-16  3:31               ` Randall S. Becker

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