Re: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing Emacs shell?

[David M. Karr]

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> David Karr <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Jun 20, 2:06 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> > > Am 20.06.2009 um 01:03 schrieb David Karr:
> > >
> > > > to configure Emacs or the Bash inside Emacs, so that it doesn't get  
> > > > killed when a script it's running fails.
> > > Make the shell script trap (shell built-in) this catastrophic error  
> > > and just execute an exit (shell built-in) instead (in last millennium  
> > > this was standard). You can also run shell scripts asynchronously in  
> > > a dedicated temporary buffer by executing it as a shell or compile  
> > > command.
> > If it matters, changing my test script to use "trap" to just exit on a
> > signal didn't make any difference.
>
> Probably your "script" is not a script but a text file containing
> shell commands that you source.
>
> The trick to avoid having it kill your shell, is to have it run in its
> own shell (which it is free to kill).  To do so, you must put:
>
> #!/bin/bash

That's not the problem.  It's a proper script and executable.

I've managed to find an element of this that seems to cause the problem, 
and removing that component makes it not happen.

Currently, my test class also reads a line of input from stdin, in 
addition to some command-line arguments.  I tried creating a dummy test 
class that doesn't read from stdin, even when I force it to throw an 
exception, and that doesn't kill the shell.  However, when I then change 
the class to read a line from stdin, whether it throws an exception or 
not, the shell dies after the script completes.  I imagine I could 
simplify this test case by just doing the readline from the script, 
instead of the class.  I'll try that a little later this morning.