Backport #5218: at_exit bug with exception handling

• Status: Closed
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: Usaku NAKAMURA

[Edgars Beigarts]

It seems that ruby 1.9.2 and later doesn't like exception handling in at_exit blocks and resets the exit code to 0.

Here is an example:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

at_exit do
  raise "X" rescue nil
end

at_exit do
  nil
end

at_exit do
  exit 1
end

at_exit do
  exit 2
end

Results:

### ruby 1.9.4dev (2011-08-23 trunk 33027) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]

$ ruby at_exit.rb ; echo $?
0

### ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-07-31 revision 32789) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]

$ ruby at_exit.rb ; echo $?
0

### ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]

$ ruby at_exit.rb ; echo $?
0

### ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i686-darwin10.8.0]

$ ruby at_exit.rb ; echo $?
1

### jruby 1.6.3 (ruby-1.8.7-p330) (2011-07-07 965162f) (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_26) [darwin-x86_64-java]

$ jruby at_exit.rb ; echo $?
1

### jruby 1.6.3 (ruby-1.9.2-p136) (2011-07-07 965162f) (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_26) [darwin-x86_64-java]

$ jruby --1.9 at_exit.rb ; echo $?
1

Related issues:

https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara/pull/463
https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara/issues/178
https://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/pull/410

[Edgars Beigarts]

To fix this I came up with this workaround:

if defined?(RUBY_ENGINE) && RUBY_ENGINE == "ruby" && RUBY_VERSION >= "1.9"
module Kernel
alias :_at_exit :at_exit
def at_exit(&block)
__at_exit do
exit_status = $!.status if $!.is_a?(SystemExit)
block.call
exit exitstatus if exit_status
end
end
end
end

[Koichi Sasada]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to Nobuyoshi Nakada

[Nobuyoshi Nakada]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r34982.
Edgars, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• eval_jump.c (rb_exec_end_proc): remember the latest exit status. [Bug #5218]

[Daniel Harrington]

Hi guys,

thank you for this fix!
Any information about when it's going to be released?

Cheers,
Daniel

[Michiel de Mare]

So what happened to the changeset? It's still broken in 1.9.3-p385.

[Nobuyoshi Nakada]

• Tracker changed from Bug to Backport
• Project changed from Ruby trunk to Backport193
• Status changed from Closed to Assigned
• Assignee changed from Nobuyoshi Nakada to Usaku NAKAMURA

[Usaku NAKAMURA]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

This issue was solved with changeset r39378.
Edgars, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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merge revision(s) 34982: [Backport #5218]

* eval_jump.c (rb_exec_end_proc): remember the latest exit status.
  [Bug #5218]