[issue664] hg process may exit with an apparently-zero status on failure.

[Bill Sommerfeld]

New submission from Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com>:

on systems available to me, sys.exit(256) yields a zero (successful) process
exit status from the python interpreter.

certain hg subcommands return a count as their exit status (notably update,
which returns the number of unresolved files), and this gets passed directly to
sys.exit().

the sys.exit() documentation I've found:  http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sys.html
says: "Most systems require it to be in the range 0-127, and produce undefined
results otherwise."

seems like the sensible thing to do would be to clip a numeric value passed to
sys.exit to 127, either in cmdutil.runcatch(), commands.run(), or somewhere else.

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messages: 3662
nosy: sommerfeld
priority: bug
status: unread
title: hg process may exit with an apparently-zero status on failure.

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