From: Sean Hinchee <henesy.dev@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] rc exec error behaviour
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 18:52:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AEAC38.4040701@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSxfm+VAufXKfhS7Nv4xuOrhUUZHGB0JfNWQc-013OfUYrVvA@mail.gmail.com>
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Will this project (rc-go?) be hosted at a particular bitbucket/hg
repository for pull requests, etc?
On 01/31/2016 12:58 AM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> Sign me up for testing.
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016, 5:16 PM Prof Brucee <prof.brucee@gmail.com
> <mailto:prof.brucee@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Any objections to me rewriting rc in go without all known bugs?
>
> On 31/01/2016 3:36 AM, <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net
> <mailto:cinap_lenrek@felloff.net>> wrote:
>
> in the rc shell, when one has exec statement and the exec
> fails, rc tries to
> continue interpreting statements after the exec which fails
> with a strange
> EOF error because in the process of preparing filedescriptors
> for exec,
> the very fd thats used to read the script was closed.
>
> burnzez provided an example of this like:
>
> term% rc -c 'exec doesnotexist; echo test'
> doesnotexist: './doesnotexist' directory entry not found
> test
> rc: /rc/lib/rcmain:29: token EOF: syntax error
>
> the manpage does not explicitely specify what should happen
> when exec fails.
>
> i did try to have rc open the . script as OCEXEC and that
> fixed the
> problem, but it wont work for any other redirections and will
> have side effects
> as the close-on-exec flag is a propery of the channel and not
> of the file
> descriptor slot. so imagine stuff like . /fd/0...
>
> i think it would me most resonable to just have rc exit with
> error status on
> failure. are there any objections to this?
>
> --
> cinap
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-01 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-30 16:31 cinap_lenrek
2016-01-31 1:16 ` Prof Brucee
2016-01-31 4:20 ` lucio
2016-01-31 6:58 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-02-01 0:52 ` Sean Hinchee [this message]
2016-02-01 4:06 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-01 4:29 ` lucio
2016-02-01 17:01 ` Richard Miller
2016-02-01 18:35 ` lucio
2016-02-02 1:29 ` Prof Brucee
2016-02-02 10:53 ` Richard Miller
2016-02-02 12:36 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2016-02-02 12:53 ` hiro
2016-02-02 13:23 ` David du Colombier
2016-02-02 15:46 ` lucio
2016-02-02 16:02 ` David du Colombier
2016-02-02 16:46 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-02-02 16:52 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-02-02 17:11 ` sl
2016-02-03 0:37 ` Sean Hinchee
2016-02-03 0:48 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-02-02 17:24 ` sl
2016-02-02 17:33 ` Wes Kussmaul
2016-02-01 20:33 ` [9fans] plan9/arm in Go 1.7? (was: rc exec error behaviour) Skip Tavakkolian
2016-02-01 20:45 ` David du Colombier
2016-02-02 4:16 ` [9fans] rc exec error behaviour Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-02-02 4:21 ` Prof Brucee
2016-02-02 4:24 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-02-22 0:19 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-03 0:48 sl
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