On August 16, 2021 6:30 PM, Jeff King wrote:
>To: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: 'Junio C Hamano' <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>; git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.33.0-rc2 (Build/Test Report)
>
>On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 06:22:59PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I think we are better to get a consistent exit code from perl.
>> There are a few options here:
>
>So concretely, the patch below works for me (my tests are not failing, but with some instrumenting, I see that the case in question is
>exiting with code 25 before this patch, and 255 after. So it really is just that my errno values are lower than yours).
>
>It's ugly, and I kind of wonder if we'd want to do it for every script to get consistent exit codes. But it does work.
>
>diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index e65d969d0b..c82336c2e8 100755
>--- a/git-send-email.perl
>+++ b/git-send-email.perl
>@@ -35,8 +35,15 @@ sub readline {
> my $self = shift;
> die "Cannot use readline on FakeTerm: $$self"; }
>+
> package main;
>
>+$SIG{__DIE__} = sub {
>+ CORE::die @_ if $^S; # in an eval; use regular die
>+ CORE::die @_ if !defined $^S; # in perl's parser
>+ print STDERR "fatal: @_\n";
>+ exit 255;
>+};
>
> sub usage {
> print <<EOT;
Not as ugly as my suggestion (previous email).
-Randall
