repl: "run" command with -ofmt=c causes an access denied error

[andrewrk]

pub export fn main() c_int {
    return 0;
}

[nix-shell:~/dev/zig/build-release]$ ./zig-out/bin/zig build-exe test.zig -ofmt=c --watch
(zig) run
error: FileBusy
/home/andy/dev/zig/lib/std/child_process.zig:312:9: 0x569672 in std.child_process.ChildProcess.waitPosix (zig)
        return self.term.?;
        ^
/home/andy/dev/zig/lib/std/child_process.zig:177:13: 0x49c0d7 in std.child_process.ChildProcess.wait (zig)
            return self.waitPosix();
            ^
/home/andy/dev/zig/lib/std/child_process.zig:139:9: 0x3b59b1 in std.child_process.ChildProcess.spawnAndWait (zig)
        return self.wait();
        ^
/home/andy/dev/zig/src/main.zig:2182:22: 0x3b4586 in runOrTest (zig)
        const term = try child.spawnAndWait();
                     ^
/home/andy/dev/zig/src/main.zig:2050:21: 0x353efd in buildOutputType (zig)
                    try runOrTest(
                    ^
/home/andy/dev/zig/src/main.zig:186:9: 0x33d227 in mainArgs (zig)
        return buildOutputType(gpa, arena, args, .{ .build = .Exe });
        ^
/home/andy/dev/zig/src/main.zig:141:5: 0x33588b in main (zig)
    return mainArgs(gpa, arena, args);
    ^

This happens because it tries to execute the ".c" file as a child process instead of executing zig run on it.

[g-w1]

Do you want zig run thing.zig -ofmt=c to work? Or only this in the repl?

[jacobly0]

The repl has been deleted.