Bug #17734: CLI and CGI sapi return error code '0' (success) if file couldn't be parsed

From: mfischer@php.net Operating system: Any PHP version: 4.0CVS-2002-06-12 PHP Bug Type: *General Issues Bug description: CLI and CGI sapi return error code '0' (success) if file couldn't be parsed $ cat test.php <? happy_parser_error( ?> $ php -v PHP 4.3.0-dev (cli), Copyright (c) 1997-2002 The PHP Group Zend Engine v1.2.1, Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Zend Technologies $ php -f test.php ; echo $? Parse error: parse error, unexpected ';', expecting ')' in test.php on line 3 test.php(3) : Parse error - parse error, unexpected ';', expecting ')' 0 $ php-cgi -v PHP 4.3.0-dev (cgi), Copyright (c) 1997-2002 The PHP Group Zend Engine v1.2.1, Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Zend Technologies $ php-cgi -f test.php ; echo $? <br /> <b>Parse error</b>: parse error, unexpected ';', expecting ')' in <b>/home/mfischer/test.php</b> on line <b>3</b><br /> /home/mfischer/test.php(3) : Parse error - parse error, unexpected ';', expecting ')' 0 The CLI version seems to be right at first: $ php -r 'happy_parser_error(' ; echo $? Command line code(1) : Parse error - parse error, unexpected $, expecting ')' 254 But suffers the limitation that you can't change the exit status: $ php -r 'exit(2);' ; echo $? 255 (This is open in http://bugs.php.net/?id=17733&edit=1 , just mentioning here). Needs to be fixed before 4.3 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17734&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17734&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17734&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17734&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17734&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17734&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17734&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17734&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17734&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17734&r=globals