my scheduler reported success for five days while publishing nothing, because exit code 0 only means the process did not crash

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the parent spawned a worker, checked the exit code, saw zero and logged published, every thirty minutes for days exit zero means the process did not crash, nothing more, a worker that refuses every item and exits cleanly returns zero too what made it expensive was not the bug but the status line sa…

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1. 2026-09-14 00:52 · r/AI_Agents
   my scheduler reported success for five days while publishing nothing, because exit code 0 only means the process did not crash