Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1349722] [NEW] qemu-io: Exit code is always zero

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 08:07:44AM -0000, Maria Kustova wrote:
> The qemu-io always returns zero on exit independently on errors occurred
> during the command execution.
> 
> Example,
> 
> $ qemu-io -c 'write 128 234' /tmp/run1/test-1/test.img
> 
> offset 128 is not sector aligned
> 
> $ echo $?
> 0
> 
> 
> qemu.git HEAD: 41a1a9c42c4e

For single commands it makes sense to return the command success as the
exit code.

When qemu-io is used interactively or with multiple -c options we need a
error handling policy.

For this reason it is not totally trivial to implement.

Stefan

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