[jira] [Created] (MESOS-2209) Mesos should not use negative exit codes

[Steven Schlansker (JIRA)]

Steven Schlansker created MESOS-2209:
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             Summary: Mesos should not use negative exit codes
                 Key: MESOS-2209
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-2209
             Project: Mesos
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: slave
    Affects Versions: 0.21.0
            Reporter: Steven Schlansker
            Priority: Minor


POSIX restricts exit codes to an unsigned 8 bit integer.
Mesos has a number of places where it exits with status -1. outside that range. 
 With some shells (notably dash, which is /bin/sh on Debian based systems) this 
causes an error:

{code}
/bin/sh: 1: exit: Illegal number: -1
{code}

An example of where this is done is in exec.cpp

{code}
  void kill()
  {
    VLOG(1) << "Committing suicide by killing the process group";

    // TODO(vinod): Invoke killtree without killing ourselves.
    // Kill the process group (including ourself).
    killpg(0, SIGKILL);

    // The signal might not get delivered immediately, so sleep for a
    // few seconds. Worst case scenario, exit abnormally.
    os::sleep(Seconds(5));
    exit(-1);
  }
{code}




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