Incomplete processing of "-eval" with closed stdin

[Sam Bobroff]

Hi,

I recently found that a small script of mine, run by passing Erlang code
as an argument to "erl -eval", was failing when run by cron. I could
easily reproduce the problem on the command line using this example:

$ erl  -eval 'io:fwrite("before\n"), receive after 1000 -> ok end,
io:fwrite("after\n"), init:stop().' < /dev/null
Eshell V5.7.4  (abort with ^G)
before
1> *** Terminating erlang (nonode@REDACTED)

It seems like init is terminating the VM as soon as it detects that
stdin is closed, which is almost immediately.

Obviously my script should have had "-noshell" and adding it fixes the
problem. However, it does seem like a bug that the code passed by -eval
is cut off while still executing.

Perhaps "-noshell" should be applied automatically when erl is started
with stdin already closed?

I'm using R13B03.

Sam.

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