Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Stephen Powell Subject: Re: 1.3.15 on W2K: return codes, bash, cmd.exe Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 13:52:53 +1100 Organization: Hail Eris! Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <20021205004220 DOT 5AA041D3D AT dragaera DOT ReleaseDominatrix DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sdcax81-a034.dialup.optusnet.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039143373 5776 211.28.74.34 (6 Dec 2002 02:56:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 02:56:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) Hamster/1.3.23.210 Cancel-Lock: sha1:vKgHGwtbcc1Eh8s9mob6kFZAVqE= On Wed, 04 Dec 2002, angela AT dragaera DOT releasedominatrix DOT com wrote: [...] > The .bat scripts do some minimal error checking and exit with > "exit /b 1" on error. Try it without the /b, just "exit 1". With /b: $ cat a.bat exit /b 2 $ cmd /c a.bat ; echo rc=$? C:\winnt\temp>exit /b 2 rc=0 Without /b: $ cat b.bat exit 2 $ cmd /c b.bat ; echo rc=$? C:\winnt\temp>exit 2 rc=2 $ cmd /ver Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. -- Stephen Powell stephen_powell AT optusnet DOT com DOT au -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/