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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:07:56 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: incorrect exit status from cygwin exec to windows process
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In-Reply-To: <000701c0a156$9b80e8f0$250ddb18@fision>; from cygwin@jason-gouger.com on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:18:10PM -0800

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:18:10PM -0800, Jason Gouger wrote:
>There appears to be some error when a cygwin process exec's another cygwin 
>process, and returns the exit status to a windows process.  The windows 
>process receives a return code of '131072'.  The problem appeared sometime 
>after the cygwin 1.1.4 release. 

This is how cygwin works.  Since there is no such thing as exec in windows,
when process a execs process b, process a exits with a special status 
flagging the owner of "process a" that an exec has occurred.

cgf