Re: Octave's exit status

[Julien Bect]

Le 09/12/2016 à 15:33, John W. Eaton a écrit :
> On 12/09/2016 03:47 AM, Julien Bect wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I observe the following with Octave 4.2.0:
> >
> > $ octave --eval '1+?'
> > parse error:
> >
> >   syntax error
> >
> > > > > 1+?
> >       ^
> >
> > error: unhandled execution exception -- eval failed
> >
> > $ echo $?
> > 0
> >
> > Is this a feature or a bug ?
> >
> > I would have expected a non-zero exit status in such a case...
>
> 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