With 16.10, the helper script has been removed, so the problem is not exactly reproducible. With 16.04, it looks to be a simple typo with the grep ([ERROR] rather than ERROR) in the script. Modifying it in that way leads to a successful prevention of php-fpm starting on parse errors. I will work on fixing 16.10 (if possible) and then SRU'ing the fix for 16.04.
Hello and thank you for reporting this bug.
With 16.10, the helper script has been removed, so the problem is not exactly reproducible. With 16.04, it looks to be a simple typo with the grep ([ERROR] rather than ERROR) in the script. Modifying it in that way leads to a successful prevention of php-fpm starting on parse errors. I will work on fixing 16.10 (if possible) and then SRU'ing the fix for 16.04.
Thanks,
Nish