Bug#744751: perl -i ignores errors (!)

[Niko Tyni]

severity 744751 wishlist
thanks

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:02:56PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:02:51PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Package: perl
> > Version: 5.14.2-21+deb7u1
> > Severity: grave
> 
> > mariner:~/junk> perl -i.bak -pe '' nonexistent
> > Can't open nonexistent: No such file or directory.
> > mariner:~/junk> echo $?
> > 0

> I can see that it would be useful if an exit code would be propagated
> on errors, somewhat like for instance find(1) does. I suppose it
> should replace the implicit exit(0) at the end of the program so that
> explicit exit() or die() calls and the like in the program would take
> precedence. 
> 
> This seems like it might be a feasible change for the future, but it
> needs to be discussed and implemented upstream. Backward compatibility
> is a high priority for perl, so it might well get rejected too.
> 
> Anyway, I think this is an enhancement request of the 'wishlist' category,
> not a grave bug. It all seems to be working as designed.

Lowering the severity as per above.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org