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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Politz <politza@hochschule-trier.de>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Weird behavior of kill-emacs
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:49:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkQVv0VCQVS4z=fMR=NHo_FW=4==HXc-xnRdgc_wnyPvqQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874mqj0ys6.fsf@hochschule-trier.de

Andreas Politz <politza@hochschule-trier.de> schrieb am Wed Feb 18 2015 at
9:07:44 PM:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Is there a way to work around this behavior?
> >
> > Why would you want to?
>
> emacs < /dev/null -Q --batch --eval '(progn (ignore-errors (read))
> (kill-emacs 42))'; echo $?
>
> returns with exit code 0, i.e. the argument to kill-emacs is ignored.  I
> guess the OP reads from stdin until EOF, which implies a fixed exit code
> of 0.
>

Exactly. In the case of the flycheck unit test suite the behavior is
triggered by some invocations of yes-or-no-p that try to read from stdin,
but it's closed, so this path is triggered and Emacs exits with a code of 0
even if the tests fail.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-18 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-18 18:58 Weird behavior of kill-emacs Philipp Stephani
2015-02-18 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-18 20:07   ` Andreas Politz
2015-02-18 20:49     ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2015-02-18 20:44   ` Philipp Stephani
2015-02-18 21:02   ` Andreas Politz
2015-02-18 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-18 21:04   ` Philipp Stephani
2015-02-18 21:17     ` Eli Zaretskii

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