When an external application we use exits normally, exit with the same

freddrake · freddrake · commit c868d16e11ac · 2003-05-14T04:16:14.000Z
exit code they returned.  All other types of exit from child processes
are normalized to a return code of 1.
Closes SF bug #732143.
diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkhowto b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
@@ -525,17 +525,19 @@ class Job:
             self.warning(
                 "Session transcript and error messages are in %s."
                 % self.log_filename)
+            result = 1
             if hasattr(os, "WIFEXITED"):
                 if os.WIFEXITED(rc):
-                    self.warning("Exited with status %s." % os.WEXITSTATUS(rc))
+                    result = os.WEXITSTATUS(rc)
+                    self.warning("Exited with status %s." % result)
                 else:
                     self.warning("Killed by signal %s." % os.WSTOPSIG(rc))
             else:
                 self.warning("Return code: %s" % rc)
             sys.stderr.write("The relevant lines from the transcript are:\n")
             sys.stderr.write("-" * 72 + "\n")
             sys.stderr.writelines(get_run_transcript(self.log_filename))
-            sys.exit(rc)
+            sys.exit(result)
 
     def message(self, msg):
         msg = "+++ " + msg
