[Marukome0743]

Addresses discussion #9482. This one changes behavior on a judgement call — see the last section before merging.

Problem

Ctrl-C on a task reports a failure whenever the signal reaches the child but not mise:

^C[//frontend:dev] ERROR sh exited with non-zero status: no exit status
[//frontend:dev] ERROR task failed
$ echo $?
1

Reproduced against the released 2026.8.10, verbatim, by signalling only the task's child.

A terminal delivers Ctrl-C to the foreground process group. A task that puts itself in another group takes the signal alone, and mise's own handler never runs — so the same keypress was a clean exit or a failure depending on which process happened to receive it:

what got the signal	before	after
the process group (plain Ctrl-C)	130, no error	unchanged
the child only	1, two ERROR lines	130, no error
nothing — task returns 130 itself	fails, exit 130	unchanged

What was actually wrong

The detection already existed. Error::is_sigint reads ExitStatus::signal() and has had unit tests for a while. What blocked it was the condition in run.rs:

!panicked && ctrlc::is_cancelled() && Error::is_task_interrupted(err)

is_cancelled() asks whether mise saw an interrupt, and it was required for both halves of is_task_interrupted. Only one half needs it — TaskInterrupted means mise abandoned the task before starting it, which cannot happen unless mise was cancelled. A child killed by SIGINT is the kernel reporting an interruption and stands on its own.

The two are now asked separately, and the combined is_task_interrupted is gone: conflating them is what let an unrelated condition attach to the wrong one. clippy found it dead immediately after the split.

Also: the message stops throwing the signal away

render_exit_status rendered a signalled process as "no exit status" while the signal sat right there in the status:

killed by SIGINT      (was: no exit status)
killed by SIGTERM
exit code 2           (unchanged)

This matters for the cases that stay failures — a SIGTERM from an OOM kill still fails, it just says so now. Unix only; other platforms keep the old string.

The judgement call

A task whose child dies of SIGINT no longer counts as failed, exits 130 instead of 1, and does not take its siblings down. A tool that sends itself SIGINT is now read as interrupted.

Two limits keep it narrow, but say the word if you want it drawn elsewhere:

• SIGINT only. A task killed by SIGTERM is not a user cancelling anything, so OOM kills and systemctl stop still fail.
• A signal, not an exit code. A task that returns 130 without dying of a signal still fails: an exit code is whatever the program chose to say, while a signal is the kernel's own report.

Verification

• Unit tests for render_exit_status over both signal and exit-code cases; the existing is_sigint tests still pass.
• New e2e/tasks/test_task_child_sigint signals only the child — the existing test_task_interrupt_cleanup signals mise itself, which is the half that already worked.
• test_task_interrupt_cleanup and cli/test_exit_status re-run; the latter pins the exit-code contract directly.
• Control run against the released binary to confirm the test detects the difference rather than passing either way.
• clippy clean with no exclusions, cargo fmt --check, shellcheck and shfmt clean on the new script.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Updated command-line help output with consistent subcommand formatting and improved option handling.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved Ctrl+C handling for child processes while allowing subsequent tasks to continue when configured.
  • Tasks interrupted before starting now report a more specific status.
  • Exit messages now display Unix signal names or numeric signal values when applicable.
  • Prevented panics from being incorrectly classified as task interruptions.

• Tests

  • Added end-to-end coverage for child-process SIGINT handling.
  • Added coverage for signal-based exit status reporting.

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Walkthrough

The change separates child-process SIGINT from pre-start cancellation, renders Unix signal exit statuses, updates run command parsing and help, adjusts scheduler continuation decisions, and adds end-to-end coverage.

Changes

Child SIGINT handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Run command parsing and help src/cli/run.rs	Run now uses usage_rs argument metadata and shared help rendering. The local Clap command builder was removed.
Signal status and interruption classification src/errors.rs, src/cli/run.rs, src/cmd.rs	render_exit_status reports recognized or numeric Unix signals. Task errors distinguish child-process SIGINT from pre-start cancellation, while panics remain excluded.
Scheduler continuation behavior and end-to-end validation src/cli/run.rs, e2e/tasks/test_task_child_sigint	Scheduler decisions use direct mise Ctrl-C state. The tests verify status 130, no error message, and execution of a queued task under --continue-on-error.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChildTask
  participant Mise
  participant Scheduler
  ChildTask->>Mise: exit after SIGINT
  Mise->>Scheduler: classify child interruption
  Scheduler->>Scheduler: check direct Ctrl-C state
  Scheduler-->>Mise: continue queued task
  Mise-->>ChildTask: exit with status 130

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The child stopped cleanly at status 130.
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Greptile Summary

The PR now classifies a child terminated by SIGINT as an interruption without treating it as a global mise cancellation.

• Preserves queued sibling execution under --continue-on-error.
• Keeps actual Ctrl-C cancellation authoritative for stopping queued work.
• Improves Unix subprocess failure messages by reporting the terminating signal.
• Adds focused unit and end-to-end coverage.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge.

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Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
src/cli/run.rs	Separates child SIGINT classification from global cancellation and fixes the previously reported sibling-task removal behavior.
src/errors.rs	Reports Unix terminating signals and separates pre-start interruption detection from child SIGINT detection.
src/cmd.rs	Updates the interruption unit test for the narrower pre-start helper.
e2e/tasks/test_task_child_sigint	Covers child-only SIGINT exit handling and continued execution of queued sibling tasks.

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In `@e2e/tasks/test_task_child_sigint`:
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[Marukome0743]

You were right, and it reproduced. Measured against the released 2026.8.10 as a control, --jobs 1 so the sibling is genuinely queued rather than already running:

scenario	2026.8.10	this branch, before your comment
child SIGINT, default	exit 1, sibling not run	exit 130, sibling not run
child SIGINT, --continue-on-error	exit 1, sibling ran	exit 130, sibling dropped

mark_interrupted sets the executor-wide flag, and both should_abort_while_stopping and the scheduler loop spell the override as continue_on_error && !is_interrupted(), so the flag switched off exactly the guarantee the user asked for.

Fixed by making those two sites key on ctrlc::is_cancelled() instead: what overrides --continue-on-error is the user interrupting mise, not any task being interrupted. One task's child taking a signal is not a reason to drop work the user asked to keep going.

Re-measured, including the case that must not change — SIGINT to mise itself with --continue-on-error still exits 130 and still drops the queued task, identically to the released binary. The e2e now covers the --continue-on-error path as well.

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