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Re: problems with exit codes on 64-bit Windows XP Pro x64
- From: Kevin Layer <layer at franz dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:10:34 -0800
- Subject: Re: problems with exit codes on 64-bit Windows XP Pro x64
Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> 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!
>> Thanks for the testcase, it's highly appreciated, though... it was
>> a lot of code for emulating cmd's "echo %errorlevel%" ;-)
Yeah. Originally, we thought it was a Microsoft bug... so we went the
extra mile.
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