REGRESSION: CLI prompts for interaction in non-TTY environment in 2.30.7 (doesn't in 2.29.5 and older)

[daveespo]

Summary

The CLI has historically not prompted for user interaction in non-TTY environments. Starting in 2.30.7 (next week's release candidate), the CLI will prompt and wait for input before timing out and returning a non-zero error code. Prior versions would exit immediately and return a zero status code.

It's debatable whether this was a feature or a bug -- but there is definitely a change in behavior here that isn't in the release notes.

Steps To Reproduce

On 2.29.5

env - HOME="$HOME" /bin/sh -c "~/sf/bin/sf a b c && echo $?" </dev/null
 ›   Warning: a b c is not a sf command.
Did you mean help? [y/n]: 0

On 2.30.5

env - HOME="$HOME" /bin/sh -c "~/sf-rc/bin/sf a b c && echo $?" </dev/null
 ›   Warning: a b c is not a sf command.
Did you mean help? [y/n]:

 ›   Error: Run sf help for a list of available commands.

Note The command waited for 5 seconds before it finally generated the error. Additionally, it exited with a non-zero status code (127) compared with the zero (0) exit code when run on 2.29.5

Expected result

Prior behavior was to exit immediately and return a zero exit code

Actual result

Command waits 5 seconds for user interaction then exits with 127 exit code

System Information

{
  "architecture": "wsl-x64",
  "cliVersion": "@salesforce/cli/2.30.7",
  "nodeVersion": "node-v20.11.0",
  "osVersion": "Linux 5.10.102.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2",
  "rootPath": "/home/esposito/sf-rc/sf",
  "shell": "bash",
  "pluginVersions": [
    "@oclif/plugin-autocomplete 3.0.9 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-commands 3.1.4 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-help 6.0.13 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-not-found 3.0.11 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-plugins 4.2.5 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-search 1.0.16 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-update 4.1.13 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-version 2.0.12 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-warn-if-update-available 3.0.12 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-which 3.1.0 (core)",
    "@salesforce/cli 2.30.7 (core)",
    "apex 3.0.25 (core)",
    "auth 3.3.13 (core)",
    "data 3.1.1 (core)",
    "deploy-retrieve 3.2.16 (core)",
    "info 3.0.27 (core)",
    "limits 3.1.10 (core)",
    "marketplace 1.0.25 (core)",
    "org 3.3.14 (core)",
    "packaging 2.1.10 (core)",
    "schema 3.1.3 (core)",
    "settings 2.0.27 (core)",
    "sobject 1.1.13 (core)",
    "source 3.1.15 (core)",
    "telemetry 3.1.13 (core)",
    "templates 56.0.16 (core)",
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}

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[iowillhoit]

Hey @daveespo, @mdonnalley was able to get a fix in for this. I kicked off a nightly with this change, could you install it (2.31.1) and see if it fixes your issue? If it does, I will patch the rc.

[daveespo]

@iowillhoit -- yep, on @salesforce/cli/2.31.1 linux-x64 node-v20.11.0 the build passes cleanly (doesn't prompt for interaction and exits with error code 0)

Thank you @mdonnalley for the quick turnaround

And FTR, I do think the current behavior is a bug .. the fact that trying to run an invalid command returns a 0 error code in a non-TTY environment (when it returns a 127 in TTY), is unexpected. But if you're going to change that in the future, please make sure it hits the release notes with a preparation period to let people know it's coming.

[daveespo]

@mdonnalley -- any chance this code regressed in @salesforce/cli/2.35.6 (today's RC build)?

Yesterday's RC (@salesforce/cli/2.34.7) returned exit code 0 for the above example .. today it's returning 127

CC @mshanemc

[mdonnalley]

@daveespo Yes, that's the expected behavior now.

Checkout the release notes for the 2.35.6

FIX: If you run a non-existent command with "closed stdin" (i.e. you specify <&- or < /dev/null after the command), Salesforce CLI now waits 10 seconds after prompting for a matching command, and then returns the appropriate error exit code. Previously it returned a 0 exit code. [oclif GitHub issue https://github.com/oclif/plugin-not-found/issues/266, oclif plugin-not-found PR https://github.com/oclif/plugin-not-found/pull/566)