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Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7.x on Windows 7: Exit statuses of Win32 executables are sometimes wrong
From: John Dong <jdong AT apple DOT com>
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:29:23 -0700
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Hi Edward,

Yeah, I forgot to mention that I tried scripting it in a batch file outside cygwin in much the same way as your script, and it ran for a day or two without fail. I can keep that going for longer just in case it fails less frequently, but I don't think it's a Windows / MSVCRT bug.


John


On Apr 29, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Edward McGuire wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 13:35, John Dong <jdong AT apple DOT com> wrote:
>> I've tried using a different shell (like dash), but it doesn't make a difference, leading me to suspect this to be a lower-level issue within the Cygwin DLL.
> Have you tried it with the stock Windows command processor? Something
> like this (untested) script?
> 
> @echo off
> :redo
> rem c:\path\to\exiter.exe 0
> if errorlevel 1 exit /b %errorlevel%
> echo %errorlevel%
> goto:redo
> 
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