Re: Octave's exit status

[John W. Eaton]

On 12/09/2016 02:06 PM, Julien Bect wrote:
> Le 09/12/2016 à 15:33, John W. Eaton a écrit :

> > Yes, Octave should exit with a non-zero status if there is a syntax
> > error.  But the real bug here is the unhandled execution exception.
> > That shouldn't happen.  I'll take a look at fixing that.
>
> Note that this happens with any error, not just syntax errors.  For
> instance:
>
> $ octave --eval 'error ("toto")'
> error: toto
> error: unhandled execution exception -- eval failed
>
> $ echo $?
> 0

I pushed the following changeset to stable:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/233fb529184b

It should fix the problem for parse or evaluation errors.

jwe