Re: Parse errors don't cause a non-zero exit code?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Felipe Kellermann wrote:
> About this issue, I have a long-term question about the exit status of zsh 
> when it gets passed an script as argument:
> 
> % zsh a
> a: can't open input file: a
> % print $?
> 1
> % a
> zsh: command not found: a
> % print $?
> 127
> %
> 
> I am aware that the standard isn't very clear in this respect, but most 
> shells explicitly interpret both cases the same way, returning 127 when 
> the shell gets a command as an argument.

Well, it's a script rather than a command, but it looks like other
shells don't seem to worry about the distinction here.

This is easy to fix.  In this case returning status 126 for a file that's
not executable doesn't make sense, so I haven't tested for it in the way
that's done in other places.

I've also modified it so that the error message is a bit more sensible.
Before you would get

NonExistentScript: can't open input file: NonExistentScript

which looks a little silly.  Now the first name is the full path to the
zsh executable, which also agrees with other shells.

Index: Src/init.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Src/init.c,v
retrieving revision 1.50
diff -u -r1.50 init.c
--- Src/init.c	1 Apr 2005 10:17:24 -0000	1.50
+++ Src/init.c	11 Apr 2005 10:05:33 -0000
@@ -308,14 +308,14 @@
     }
     if (*argv) {
 	if (unset(SHINSTDIN)) {
-	    argzero = *argv;
 	    if (!cmd)
-		SHIN = movefd(open(unmeta(argzero), O_RDONLY | O_NOCTTY));
+		SHIN = movefd(open(unmeta(*argv), O_RDONLY | O_NOCTTY));
 	    if (SHIN == -1) {
-		zerr("can't open input file: %s", argzero, 0);
-		exit(1);
+		zerr("can't open input file: %s", *argv, 0);
+		exit(127);
 	    }
 	    opts[INTERACTIVE] &= 1;
+	    argzero = *argv;
 	    argv++;
 	}
 	while (*argv)
Index: Test/A01grammar.ztst
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Test/A01grammar.ztst,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 A01grammar.ztst
--- Test/A01grammar.ztst	4 Apr 2005 09:35:43 -0000	1.11
+++ Test/A01grammar.ztst	11 Apr 2005 10:05:33 -0000
@@ -452,3 +452,7 @@
   $ZTST_testdir/../Src/zsh -f -c "'"
 1:Parse error on inline command causes non-zero exit status
 ?zsh: unmatched '
+
+  $ZTST_testdir/../Src/zsh -f NonExistentScript
+127q:Non-existent script causes exit status 127
+?$ZTST_testdir/../Src/zsh: can't open input file: NonExistentScript

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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