When an external application we use exits normally, exit with the same
exit code they returned. All other types of exit from child processes
are normalized to a return code of 1.
Closes SF bug #732143.
diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkhowto b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
index 7163974..eed1a58 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkhowto
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
@@ -525,9 +525,11 @@
self.warning(
"Session transcript and error messages are in %s."
% self.log_filename)
+ result = 1
if hasattr(os, "WIFEXITED"):
if os.WIFEXITED(rc):
- self.warning("Exited with status %s." % os.WEXITSTATUS(rc))
+ result = os.WEXITSTATUS(rc)
+ self.warning("Exited with status %s." % result)
else:
self.warning("Killed by signal %s." % os.WSTOPSIG(rc))
else:
@@ -535,7 +537,7 @@
sys.stderr.write("The relevant lines from the transcript are:\n")
sys.stderr.write("-" * 72 + "\n")
sys.stderr.writelines(get_run_transcript(self.log_filename))
- sys.exit(rc)
+ sys.exit(result)
def message(self, msg):
msg = "+++ " + msg