Fix double newline after Interrupt

Seems to be an issue with Ruby system() call doing a double fork.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb b/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
index a13ed3866..55293ca80 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #
 class ExecutionError <RuntimeError
   def initialize cmd, args=[]
-    super "#{cmd} #{args*' '}"
+    super "Failure while executing: #{cmd} #{args*' '}"
   end
 end
 class BuildError <ExecutionError
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
index 0dd26d49b..d01436c78 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
@@ -64,11 +64,12 @@ end
 # Kernel.system but with exceptions
 def safe_system cmd, *args
   puts "#{cmd} #{args*' '}" if ARGV.verbose?
-
-  execd=Kernel.system cmd, *args
-  # somehow Ruby doesn't handle the CTRL-C from another process -- WTF!?
+  exec_success=Kernel.system cmd, *args
+  # some tools, eg. tar seem to confuse ruby and it doesn't propogate the
+  # CTRL-C interrupt to us too, so execution continues, but the exit code os
+  # still 2 so we raise our own interrupt
   raise Interrupt, cmd if $?.termsig == 2
-  raise ExecutionError.new(cmd, args) unless execd and $? == 0
+  raise ExecutionError.new(cmd, args) unless exec_success and $?.success?
 end
 
 def curl url, *args