From:	pjbk AT cee DOT hw DOT ac DOT uk (Peter JB King)
Subject:	Result of "system" calls
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date:	Tue, 17 Aug 93 11:32:51 WET DST

I have a suite of programs developed under TurboC, which I have
transferred to GnuC, using go32.  There is a slight problem that I have
observed.
When a call to system fails, then the value returned is 0.  This can
happen for example if a TurboC main program executes

	rc = system("gcc_prog ...");

and go32 is not in the PATH, or if the gcc_prog is interrupted by ^C.
In either case, system returns 0.  Should it not return some non zero
value?  (I don't know what UNIX does)
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