skill: two invocations of a live query are two measurements (Refs #2161) - #2632
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Chasing the cache-key work I saw `VERDICT: WAIT` and `rc=0` and
concluded the exit-code fix was not working. It was working. I had run
the command twice -- once to capture the output, once to capture `$?` --
and in the second between them the last check completed. The WAIT
belonged to the first invocation and the zero to the second.
./tri pr ready N 2>&1 | tail -3 # says WAIT
./tri pr ready N >/dev/null; echo $? # says 0
Two invocations of a command reading a LIVE external system are two
measurements of two different states. On adjacent lines they read as
one.
out=$(./tri pr ready N 2>&1); rc=$? # one invocation, both facts
This is the campaign's own subject arriving in the shell one-liner used
to investigate it. Before suspecting the subject, count how many times
the question was asked.
Refs #2161
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Chasing the cache-key work I saw
VERDICT: WAITandrc=0and concluded the exit-code fix was not working. It was working.I had run the command twice — once to capture the output, once to capture
$?— and in the second between them the last check completed. The WAIT belonged to the first invocation and the zero to the second, and neither was wrong.Two invocations of a command that reads a live external system are two measurements of two different states. On adjacent lines they read as one.
This is the campaign's own subject arriving in the shell one-liner used to investigate it. Before suspecting the subject, count how many times the question was asked — against a moving system, asking twice is already a different question.
§108.
Refs #2161