Stop-DbaExternalProcess - Stop eating the caller loop when the process cannot be stopped - #10698
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…s cannot be stopped Stop-Function -Continue runs PowerShell's continue. No loop encloses this call site inside the command, so the continue unwound out of the command and consumed an iteration of whatever loop the caller runs in: a user's foreach silently skipped an element, and Pester's runner corrupted. The escape only bites the non-EnableException path; with EnableException Stop-Function throws before it gets there. Part of #10638 (do Stop-DbaExternalProcess) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The process-stop failure now returns from the command invocation instead of consuming the caller loop, with successful process termination unchanged. The relevant Windows PowerShell coverage and all applicable exact-head checks pass.
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Part of #10638, the sweep for
Stop-Function -Continueoutside an enclosing loop. Same shape as #10637.Problem
Stop-DbaExternalProcessreports a failed kill from the catch at the end of its process block withStop-Function -Continue(public/Stop-DbaExternalProcess.ps1:98). No loop encloses that site inside the command, so without-EnableExceptionthecontinueunwinds out of the command and consumes an iteration of whatever loop the caller runs in. Proven in the lab with the plain-script recipe: three calls in aforeachleft the loop counter at 0 on development and at 3 with the fix.What changed
The
-Continueis dropped; the catch is the last statement of the process block, so nothing else is needed.Tests
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When the process does not exist: three calls with a process id that does not exist on localhost, asserting the loop count and theError killingwarning. Through the testing-dbatools harness: green on both editions with the fix; the plain-script proof above is the red-on-old.created by Claude and reviewed by Andreas Jordan
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