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Last error message is displayed after a CTRL-C when the openroad command is piped
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Description
Describe the bug
Last error message is displayed after a CTRL-C when the openroad command is piped.
I tested 3 commands (an false one foobar, read_lef and sv_elav) which print respectively 1, 2 & 3 error lines).
Here are the ouput without piping:
Error: foobar.tcl, 1 invalid command name "foobar"
openroad>
[ERROR STA-0565] read_lef requires one positional argument.
Error: read_lef.tcl, 1 STA-0565
openroad>
error: no input files
[ERROR SYN-0001] Elaboration failed.
Error: sv_elab.tcl, 1 SYN-0001
openroad>
Here are the ouput with piping:
openroad> Error: foobar.tcl, 1 invalid command name "foobar"
[ERROR STA-0565] read_lef requires one positional argument.
openroad> Error: read_lef.tcl, 1 STA-0565
error: no input files
[ERROR SYN-0001] Elaboration failed.
openroad> Error: sv_elab.tcl, 1 SYN-0001
Note that in case of a wrong command (ex foobar), we don't even see there is an error. It took me some time before figuring out there was an error hence the report to help debugging.
Expected Behavior
See all the error messages lines
Environment
RHEL 8.1
OpenROAD 26Q3-2372-g766c85a4dd
To Reproduce
Put these commands in a file and source it from a terminal. Do CTRL-C when the prompt appears:
echo foobar > foobar.tcl
echo read_lef > read_lef.tcl
echo sv_elab > sv_elab.tcl
openroad -no_splash foobar.tcl
openroad -no_splash read_lef.tcl
openroad -no_splash sv_elab.tcl
openroad -no_splash foobar.tcl |& tee foobar.log
openroad -no_splash read_lef.tcl |& tee read_lef.log
openroad -no_splash sv_elab.tcl |& tee sv_elab.log
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