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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:43:05 -0500
To: zevel <zg DOT cyg AT zevelx DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll exit status
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At 09:30 AM 3/7/2005, you wrote:
>The latest version of cygwin1.dll ("cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/3/1 11:01) does not return the correct exit status when a Cygwin application is called from Windows. Older versions such as ("cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2004/11/10 8:34) do.
>
>
>Example:
>
>Create the bash script - error4.sh
>-------------------------------------------------
>#
># simple script to return the exit status of 4
>#
>exit 4
>-------------------------------------------------
>
>The from the Windows command prompt run the following:
>
>C:\TMP> bash error4.sh
>C:\TMP> echo %errorlevel%
>
>For an older cygwin1.dll the output is:
>4
>
>For the newest cygwin1.dll the output is:
>1024


See <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg01382.html>.  Also 
look at the similar thread about this same issue last week:
<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00088.html>.  This is all
as-designed/as-intended.



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