[Cocci] “coccicheck failed” during parallel program runs

[elfring@users.sourceforge.net (SF Markus Elfring)]

>>> It seems that make coccicheck interprets anything being written on
>>> standard error as a fatal error.
>>
>> How do you come to this conclusion?
> 
> Because the message in question used to be sent to standard output,
> for many years, and no one was complaining.

Is it interesting to look on circumstances and why it was tolerated?

Did the expectations evolve a bit more for this software in the meantime?


> I don't see why printing a warning message to stderr would change the
> return code only in the parallel case.

I would also wonder about such a side effect.

Can a failed call of a function like "printf" in the OCaml source code
result in a questionable return value which will become the discussed
program exit status?


By the way:
This observation depends on the result from the following statements.

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SPATCH="`which ${SPATCH:=spatch}`"
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$SPATCH --help | grep "\-\-jobs" > /dev/null && USE_JOBS="yes"
?


Would an approach like the following help here?


Update candidate "scripts/coccicheck":
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run_cmd_parmap() {
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	$@ 2>$DEBUG_FILE
	if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
		COMMAND_RESULT=$?
		echo "coccicheck failed"
		exit $COMMAND_RESULT
	fi
}
?

Regards,
Markus