On Tue Oct 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM UTC, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> Parsing KTAP is quite an inconvenience, but most of the time the thing
> you really want to know is "did anything fail"?
>
> Let's give the user the his information without them needing
> to parse anything.
>
> Because of the use of subshells and namespaces, this needs to be
> communicated via a file. Just write arbitrary data into the file and
> treat non-empty content as a signal that something failed.
>
> In case any user depends on the current behaviour, such as running this
> from a script with `set -e` and parsing the result for failures
> afterwards, add a flag they can set to get the old behaviour, namely
> --no-error-on-fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <[email protected]>

Hi Shuah,

Can you take a look at this?

Cheers,
Brendan

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