Gulp: Gulp 4 returns with exit code 0 even if there are unfinished tasks

[barbogast]

What were you expecting to happen?
Gulp 4 returns a non-zero exit code if tasks are unfinished

What actually happened?
Gulp 4 returned exit code zero

Please post a sample of your gulpfile (preferably reduced to just the bit that's not working)

const gulp = require('gulp')

gulp.task('aaa', () => {

})

When running the task gulp correctly reports that the task has not completed. But the return code of gulp seems to be 0. I would prefer it to be 1.

~/website$ node_modules/.bin/gulp aaa
[10:54:26] Using gulpfile ~/website/gulpfile.js
[10:54:26] Starting 'aaa'...
[10:54:26] The following tasks did not complete: aaa
[10:54:26] Did you forget to signal async completion?
~/website$ echo $?
0

What version of gulp are you using?

~/website$ gulp -v
[10:53:13] CLI version 1.4.0
[10:53:13] Local version 4.0.0-alpha.2

What versions of npm and node are you using?

~/website$ node -v
v8.9.3
~/website$ npm -v
5.5.1

[aduh95]

For the record, I tested with the latest version, and got the same result:

$ gulp -v                                                                                                                                               
[16:56:02] CLI version 2.0.0
[16:56:02] Local version 4.0.0
$ gulp aaa
[16:59:25] Using gulpfile .../gulpfile.js
[16:59:25] Starting 'aaa'...
[16:59:25] The following tasks did not complete: aaa
[16:59:25] Did you forget to signal async completion?
$ echo $?
0

[phated]

@barbogast I like this idea (and I think I might have tried to do it before) but the way node handles process.on('exit') (used at https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp-cli/blob/master/lib/versioned/%5E4.0.0/log/sync-task.js#L38) doesn't allow you to specify a new error code (see https://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_event_exit) AFAIK. If you want to submit a PR to gulp-cli with something that makes this work, I'll take a look.

/cc @sttk in case he knows something more than me.

[sttk]

@phated Since node v0.11, exit code can be specified by setting to process.exitCode.

In v0.10, exit code can be specified by using process.exit(code), but there is a bad point that 'exit' event handlers registered after warn() in sync-task.js are not executed.

Should we do this?

[phated]

@sttk maybe we should only support this with process.exitCode - this will mean that the exit code will be incorrect on node 0.10 (but that's been our default behavior so far)

[sttk]

@phated I got it. I'll send a pr about this after I research exit code when gulp-cli is respawned.

[barbogast]

I just tried setting process.exitCode and it seemed to work for me. See the PR above.