Re: Octave's exit status

[Julien Bect]

Le 09/12/2016 à 20:13, John W. Eaton a écrit :
> 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

Yes, I confirm that I get now an exit code equal to 1 for both examples.

I think that is an important bugfix, that would justify by itself a 
4.2.1 bugfix release ;-)

@++
Julien