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: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 11:29:47 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: reverted (to some degree) cygwin exit value presented to non-cygwin processes Message-ID: <20050308162947.GB31961@gully.bosbc.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i I've added a change to cygwin which causes exit values to be right shifted by eight bits when a process knows that it has been started from a windows process. This means that if a process exits with a status code of "1", windows will see an exit code of "1" rather than "256". FWIW, I'm making this change despite the rude personal email I received about the current exit code behavior although it was, as always, tempting to leave this as-is in face of the querulous complaints, demands, and threats. cgf -- 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/