[chef] knife exit codes on windows?

[Brian Anderson < >]

I feel like I'm missing something obvious here.  No matter what happens in the run, knife winrm always seems to return 0.

To demonstrate this I did a remote run of chef-client, calling an invalid override run list.

First on linux:

 

~ ]$ knife ssh -m linhost -x user -i key.pem "sudo chef-client --force-logger -l info -o recipe[nosuch::recipel]"
[...]
linhost [2014-02-10T09:57:56-05:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::RecipeNotFound: could not find recipe fooszl for cookbook affdex
~ ]$ echo $?
1

Then Windows:

knife winrm -m winhost -x Administrator -P password "chef-client --force-logger -l info -o recipe[affdex::fooszl]"
[...]
winhost [2014-02-10T09:58:33-05:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::RecipeNotFound: could not find recipe fooszl for cookbook affdex
~ ]$ echo $?
0

Then I tried using the --returns arg to knife winrm:

knife winrm --returns 0 -m winhost -x Administrator -P password "chef-client --force-logger -l info -o recipe[affdex::fooszl]"
[...]
winhost [2014-02-10T09:59:03-05:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::RecipeNotFound: could not find recipe fooszl for cookbook affdex
ERROR: Failed to execute command on winhost return code 1
~ ]$ echo $?
0

Is there some way that I am missing to get knife winrm to return 1 when the chef run fails, like knife ssh does?

Thanks,

Brian

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