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Re: cygwin.bat improvements (was Re: Cygwin on XP disapearing terminal mystery)


On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 12:06:08PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >However, most bash invocations should exit with a 0 exit code.  So, why
> >not simply do something like the test below?
> >
> >if not errorlevel 1 goto nopause
> >pause
> >:nopause
> >
> >Also, "command not found" sets error code to 127, so the "1" above can be
> >changed to "127".

(actually Dave's right -- it's "9009").

> Wouldn't that be:
>
>   if not errorlevel 0 pause

Contrary to all common sense, "if not errorlevel A" means "if %ERRORLEVEL%
< A", not an equality test...  So the above will *always* pause.  Also, in
command.com (Win9x), I believe you can only have a "goto" after the "if
errorlevel" test...

> or
>
>   @if errorlevel 0 goto exit
>   @echo "bash was either not executed or did not exit cleanly"
>   @echo "[more touchy feely stuff here]"
>   @pause
>   :exit
>
> ?

Again, "if errorlevel 0" means "0 and above".  Yuck!

> This would be triggered if someone types "exit N" (where N != 0) in the
> bash window, though.  I suspect that we'll now hear from the cygwin user
> contingent who always type "exit 42" because that was required to work
> around problems with ZoneAlarm v527.

Since "exit N" from bash will never produce an exit code that's over 256,
checking for %ERRORLEVEL%>=256 should work well to diagnose "bash
crashing" problems.

So, do we go with

if not errorlevel 256 goto nopause
pause
:nopause

?
	Igor
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