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Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:00:48 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Subject: Re: fio exits with 0 with some bad job files
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To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, "fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
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On 2014-10-06 16:27, Bruce Cran wrote:
> If you run fio with --parse-only and a job file such as
> examples/tiobench-example.fio that's had the semi-colons removed from
> the first two lines, fio prints an error message but still exits with 0:
>
> % ./fio examples/tiobench-example.fio --parse-only
> fio: option <tiobench like setup, add more fX files between the
> stonewalls to> outside of [] job section
> % echo $?
> 0
> %
>
> I'd have expected it to exit with a non-zero value.

Not too surprising, don't think any of that was really audited. But a 
bug, of course, will look at fixing that up. Is it consistent across any 
error, or did you just notice this particular one?

-- 
Jens Axboe