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| author |   Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> | 2009-08-06 20:59:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> | 2009-08-06 20:59:51 +0100 |
| commit | b9def7b7029ae0db9ca478b560e1f5af96fe327d (patch) | |
| tree | c0f4f8870ee497aee4b345e491e96c30d750692d /pkg-mgr-commands.tex | |
| parent | $USE_EXPAND and $USE_EXPAND_VALUES_* aren't incremental (diff) | |
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nonfatal doesn't override die, assert
The wording's rather unclear on what 'nonfatal die' does. To avoid
arguing whether calling die is a 'failure', explicitly say that nonfatal
doesn't stop die or assert.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pkg-mgr-commands.tex b/pkg-mgr-commands.tex index 0278aec..b87bb49 100644 --- a/pkg-mgr-commands.tex +++ b/pkg-mgr-commands.tex @@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ The following commands affect this behaviour: \begin{description} \item[nonfatal] \featurelabel{nonfatal} Executes the remainder of its arguments as a command, preserving the exit status. If this results in a command being called that would normally abort - the build process due to a failure, instead a non-zero exit status shall be returned. Only in - EAPIs listed in table~\ref{tab:commands-die-table} as supporting \t{nonfatal}. + the build process due to a failure (but not due to an explicit \t{die} or \{assert} call), + instead a non-zero exit status shall be returned. Only in EAPIs listed in + table~\ref{tab:commands-die-table} as supporting \t{nonfatal}. \end{description} \begin{centertable}{EAPI Command Failure Behaviour} \label{tab:commands-die-table} |