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Re: problems with exit codes on 64-bit Windows XP Pro x64
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 11:01:35 +0100
- Subject: Re: problems with exit codes on 64-bit Windows XP Pro x64
- References: <1649.1139266194@gemini>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Feb 6 14:49, Kevin Layer wrote:
> I'm running the latest cygwin (1.5.19, see cygcheck below).
>
> My application is a native Windows app (64 and 32-bit). It includes
> no cygwin libraries and is not compiled with cygwin's gcc. When I
> execute cygwin programs from my app, however, the return value
> obtained from cygwin programs is always 0.
>
> More precisely, I spawn a particular cygwin program, say `make' or
> `sh', with CreateProcess(). When the program exits
> GetExitCodeProcess() always sets the exit status to 0, no matter what
> the real exit status was.
I just applied a patch which should return the correct error code.
Thanks for the testcase, it's highly appreciated, though... it was
a lot of code for emulating cmd's "echo %errorlevel%" ;-)
Corinna
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