Re: fio exits with 0 with some bad job files

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 2014-10-06 19:00, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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?

That particular one was a silly one, affected the non parse-only as 
well. It ended up erroring out on no jobs being defined, so this 
improves the behavior for that too.

http://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=commit;h=0e9c21a29431e43cd73c83c13271ee6e94fe1328


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Jens Axboe