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Re: problems with exit codes on 64-bit Windows XP Pro x64


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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