miller/pkg
John Kerl 5f152d7669
join: exit nonzero when the left file cannot be read (#2169) (#2171)
The join verb's left-file ingest silently swallowed read errors: a
nonexistent or malformed left file produced empty (or partial) output
with exit code 0.

Two defects, one per ingest path:

* Unsorted (half-streaming) path, ingestLeftFile in
  pkg/transformers/join.go: errors from the record-reader's error
  channel were dropped ("TODO: propagate error to caller"), as were
  record-reader construction errors. All left-file read failures were
  silent.

* Sorted (-s) path, readRecord in
  pkg/transformers/utils/join_bucket_keeper.go: the error channel was
  consulted, but the record-reader goroutine sends the error and the
  end-of-stream marker on separate channels, so the select could see
  end-of-stream first and drop the error. A nonexistent left file with
  -s exited 0 about half the time (racy).

Both paths now print "mlr: <error>" to stderr and exit 1, matching how
read errors on regular (right) input files are reported. On receipt of
the end-of-stream marker, both consumers now do a final non-blocking
drain of the error channel, which is deterministic since the reader
sends any error before the marker.

Discovered while verifying #377.

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 17:34:33 -04:00
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auxents Lint round 5+6: staticcheck and errcheck to zero (#2130) 2026-07-03 11:42:08 -04:00
bifs DSL format function: support 1-based positional placeholders like {1} (#1650) (#2160) 2026-07-06 15:15:33 -04:00
cli Right-align headers over all-numeric columns with --right-align-numeric (#380) (#2167) 2026-07-06 16:45:14 -04:00
climain Add DSL validate/dry-run: put/filter --explain (#2098 PR5) (#2131) 2026-07-03 18:12:23 -04:00
colorizer Strip dead code from pkg/ (#2121) 2026-07-01 19:32:13 -04:00
dkvpx Strip dead code from pkg/ (#2121) 2026-07-01 19:32:13 -04:00
dsl DSL format function: support 1-based positional placeholders like {1} (#1650) (#2160) 2026-07-06 15:15:33 -04:00
entrypoint Add mlr mcp MCP server + agent playbook, with a --no-shell gate (#2098 PR7) (#2133) 2026-07-03 19:41:49 -04:00
go-csv Some fixes for staticcheck (#2006) 2026-03-03 09:27:03 -05:00
input Exit 0 when skip-trivial-records is used and CSV/TSV ends with blank lines (#1535) (#2146) 2026-07-06 15:22:51 -04:00
lib Add mlr mcp MCP server + agent playbook, with a --no-shell gate (#2098 PR7) (#2133) 2026-07-03 19:41:49 -04:00
mlrval Emit valid JSON numbers for floats like 004.56; document CSV quoting vs. type inference (#2151) 2026-07-05 20:19:32 -04:00
output Right-align headers over all-numeric columns with --right-align-numeric (#380) (#2167) 2026-07-06 16:45:14 -04:00
parsing Add a first-class bytes type to the DSL, with b"..." literals and base64/hex codecs (#2122) 2026-07-03 11:58:44 -04:00
pbnjay-strptime Performance and style fixes (#1981) 2026-02-18 09:19:31 -05:00
platform Performance and style fixes (#1981) 2026-02-18 09:19:31 -05:00
runtime Lint round 5+6: staticcheck and errcheck to zero (#2130) 2026-07-03 11:42:08 -04:00
scan Strip dead code from pkg/ (#2121) 2026-07-01 19:32:13 -04:00
stream Lint round 5+6: staticcheck and errcheck to zero (#2130) 2026-07-03 11:42:08 -04:00
terminals More AI skill/MCP docs (#2140) 2026-07-04 14:45:29 -04:00
transformers join: exit nonzero when the left file cannot be read (#2169) (#2171) 2026-07-06 17:34:33 -04:00
types Strip dead code from pkg/ (#2121) 2026-07-01 19:32:13 -04:00
version Post-6.20.2 release: back to 6.20.2-dev 2026-07-04 15:44:14 -04:00
README.md Export library code in pkg/ (#1391) 2023-09-10 17:15:13 -04:00

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