1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/ninep/events.zig b/src/ninep/events.zig
index 4d1bbe64..1ffbaab9 100644
--- a/src/ninep/events.zig
+++ b/src/ninep/events.zig
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ const exec = @import("../exec.zig");
 const look = @import("../look.zig");
 const cloud9 = @import("cloud9");
 const tree = @import("tree.zig");
+const ctl = @import("ctl.zig");
 const pane_files = @import("pane.zig");
 const dump = @import("../dump.zig");
 
@@ -736,6 +737,11 @@ pub fn writeEvent(p: *Pardes, asked: Req, id: usize) Reply {
         }
         if (check.i != req.data.len) return tree.failText(req.tag, E.INVAL, tree.e_bad_event ++ ": a record is <origin><action><q0> <q1> <flag> <count> <text>, a line each");
     }
+    // What a record written back runs fails the write as a click written
+    // to exec would (a refused Del: EIO and its err), not said and lost.
+    p.fs.capturing = true;
+    p.fs.failure_len = 0;
+    defer p.fs.capturing = false;
     var run: EventReader = .{ .data = req.data };
     while (run.next()) |r| {
         const live = p.paneBySerial(serial) orelse break;
@@ -815,6 +821,10 @@ pub fn writeEvent(p: *Pardes, asked: Req, id: usize) Reply {
             else => unreachable,
         }
     }
+    if (p.fs.failure_len > 0) {
+        const failure = p.fs.failure[0..p.fs.failure_len];
+        return tree.failText(req.tag, ctl.failureErrno(failure), std.fmt.bufPrint(&p.fs.ename, "{s}", .{failure}) catch failure);
+    }
     return .{ .tag = req.tag, .written = @intCast(asked.data.len) };
 }