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27.0.50; Document that Emacs in batch mode exits with exit status -1 on error

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 31552 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31552: 27.0.50; Document that Emacs in batch mode exits with
 exit status -1 on error
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 19:19:54 +0200

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> schrieb am Di., 22. Mai 2018 um 19:17 Uhr:

> > From: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 15:41:25 +0200
> >
> > I haven't found any documentation in the Lisp reference manual that the
> > exit status of an Emacs process exiting due to a nonlocal exit is -1 by
> > default (adjusted to 255 by Bash).  This should be documented, for users
> > that run Emacs in batch mode.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you are describing.  Can you show a
> reproducer?
>
>
$ src/emacs -Q -batch -eval '(error "foo")' ; echo $?

foo
255

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