From ce2cd2553a937d84f1a78386ab28502e89f247d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tv <tv@krebsco.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 20:36:10 +0000
Subject: populate: exit with the status of the command that failed

The shell implementation runs under set -e, so it exits with the status
of the command that failed, e.g. 255 if ssh can't reach the target,
which wrappers retrying on connection failures rely on, or 128 if git
fetch fails.  The program does the same, instead of exiting with 1, and
with 128 plus the signal for a command a signal ended.

A phase's expect.status is the exit status it expects populate to fail
with; git-status checks git fetch's.
---
 pkgs/populate/src/main.rs |  2 +-
 pkgs/populate/src/run.rs  | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'pkgs/populate/src')

diff --git a/pkgs/populate/src/main.rs b/pkgs/populate/src/main.rs
index 17d9678..2884fd0 100644
--- a/pkgs/populate/src/main.rs
+++ b/pkgs/populate/src/main.rs
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ fn exit(failure: run::Failure) -> ExitCode {
             eprintln!("{message}");
             ExitCode::FAILURE
         }
-        run::Failure::Command => ExitCode::FAILURE,
+        run::Failure::Command(status) => ExitCode::from(status),
         run::Failure::Signal(signal) => ExitCode::from(128 + signal as u8),
     }
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/populate/src/run.rs b/pkgs/populate/src/run.rs
index 528977c..4ed1d76 100644
--- a/pkgs/populate/src/run.rs
+++ b/pkgs/populate/src/run.rs
@@ -15,8 +15,10 @@ use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicI32, Ordering};
 pub enum Failure {
     /// A message to print.
     Message(String),
-    /// A command failed, after printing why.
-    Command,
+    /// A command failed, after printing why, with its exit status, which
+    /// populate exits with: the shell implementation, running under set -e,
+    /// does, so e.g. 255 from ssh still tells a connection failure.
+    Command(u8),
     /// A signal arrived: SIGHUP, SIGINT, or SIGTERM.
     Signal(i32),
 }
@@ -25,7 +27,7 @@ impl fmt::Display for Failure {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
         match self {
             Failure::Message(message) => f.write_str(message),
-            Failure::Command => f.write_str("a command failed"),
+            Failure::Command(status) => write!(f, "a command failed with status {status}"),
             Failure::Signal(signal) => write!(f, "got signal {signal}"),
         }
     }
@@ -117,7 +119,7 @@ impl Context {
             .output()
             .map_err(|e| Failure::Message(format!("error: can't run mktemp: {e}")))?;
         if !output.status.success() {
-            return Err(Failure::Command);
+            return Err(failed(output.status));
         }
         let tmpdir = PathBuf::from(String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stdout).trim_end());
         // Shared with the commands populate runs.
@@ -319,13 +321,25 @@ fn spawn_error(command: &Command, e: std::io::Error) -> Failure {
     ))
 }
 
+/// The failure of a command that exited with status, or, like in a shell,
+/// with 128 plus the signal that ended it.
+fn failed(status: ExitStatus) -> Failure {
+    use std::os::unix::process::ExitStatusExt;
+    let code = match (status.code(), status.signal()) {
+        (Some(code), _) => code,
+        (None, Some(signal)) => 128 + signal,
+        (None, None) => 1,
+    };
+    Failure::Command(u8::try_from(code).ok().filter(|c| *c != 0).unwrap_or(1))
+}
+
 /// Runs a command, failing if it fails, or if a signal arrived meanwhile.
 pub fn status(command: &mut Command) -> Result<()> {
     let result: std::io::Result<ExitStatus> = command.status();
     check_signal()?;
     match result {
         Ok(status) if status.success() => Ok(()),
-        Ok(_) => Err(Failure::Command),
+        Ok(status) => Err(failed(status)),
         Err(e) => Err(spawn_error(command, e)),
     }
 }
@@ -339,7 +353,7 @@ pub fn output(command: &mut Command) -> Result<String> {
         Ok(output) if output.status.success() => {
             Ok(String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stdout).into_owned())
         }
-        Ok(_) => Err(Failure::Command),
+        Ok(output) => Err(failed(output.status)),
         Err(e) => Err(spawn_error(command, e)),
     }
 }
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