exit code 9 when use this cmd: zip -r example.zip [many files or directories]

[jharding]

exit code 9 when use this cmd: zip -r example.zip [many files or directories]

[SantoDE]

I have a similiar problem. I can't extract huge files. Any workarround? :/

[pwhelan]

Something is sending a signal to the zip process. This line is taken from the zip man page:

The exit status (or error level) approximates the exit codes defined by PKWARE and 
takes  on  the  following values, except under VMS:

   ...
   9      the user aborted zip prematurely with control-C (or similar)

I thought maybe it was the timeout from child_process.exec, http://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_child_process_exec_command_options_callback, but after setting it explicitly to 0 in my code of grunt-exec I've come up short.

Oddly enough changing the killSignal execOption to 0 in grunt-exec fixes the issue.

[tjbaker]

I hit this today on Linux. I tried increasing nofile to as high as 64000 but that made no difference.

[tjbaker]

If I run zip with --quiet it works, seems as though stdout is overflowing something.

[eabovsky]

I also experienced... @tjbaker - thanks for the tip, that also worked for me as a work-around. I'm on OSX 10.10.

[gwicksted]

This is expected behavior from child_process.exec due to the default options provided. The default buffer size is 200*1024 for stdout and stderr and if the process exceeds that, it is killed.

Unfortunately this is absent from the grunt-exec documentation; however, that is about to change. I'm in the process of documenting the options available, their defaults, and expected outcomes (such as this one) from the Node documentation.