Exit non-zero when snapshot create --skip-errors skips anything it cannot read (closes #310)
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A backup under --skip-errors printed its skip errors, then "Finished
successfully.", and exited 0, so a cron wrapper could not tell it from
a complete backup.

Each skipped entry, including a directory the walk could not list, is
now counted as examined and failed. If --skip-errors skipped anything
it could not read or list, the run still keeps its snapshots and
prunes as before, then fails with "Backup completed, but N file(s)
could not be read". A file removed during the run, even before the
walk reaches it, counts once as failed and leaves the exit status
alone; without the flag it no longer stops the backup. Excluded
entries are never counted.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #381.
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package cli //nolint:testpackage // shares runEntry and the hermetic config helpers
import (
"testing"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
)
// TestEntrySnapshotCreateSkipErrorsExitsNonZeroWhenItSkips backs up,
// under --skip-errors, a source directory that does not exist, which the
// walk skips. The command exits non-zero and reports the backup as
// completed, not as a failed snapshot creation. See
// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/310.
//
//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout, os.Stderr and the xdg globals
func TestEntrySnapshotCreateSkipErrorsExitsNonZeroWhenItSkips(t *testing.T) {
// writeBackupConfig would create the source directory.
configPath := writeHermeticPruneConfig(t, false)
code, stdout, stderr := runEntry(t,
flagConfig, configPath, "--skip-errors", cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate)
assert.Equal(t, 1, code)
assert.Contains(t, stdout,
"Files: 1 examined, 0 backed up, 0 unchanged, 1 failed.")
assert.NotContains(t, stdout, "Finished successfully.")
assert.Contains(t, stderr,
"Backup completed, but 1 file(s) could not be read")
assert.NotContains(t, stderr, "Snapshot creation failed")
}