Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:09:19 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: negative error status: gcc vs. cl Message-ID: <20040708100919.GB32001@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jul 8 11:49, Daniel Lungu wrote: > Feel like bash tcsh on Cygwin mess up with negative exit status from a cl > compiled .exe The answer is "don't do that". Use positive values in the range from 0 to 255. See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/exit.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/