cygwin's exit status / errorlevel

[Lapo Luchini]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 02:41:59AM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
>  
>
>>Why is cygwin's exitstatus seen by "windows" as an errorlevel 256 times 
>>bigger?
>>    
>>
>This question is answered right in the first few sentences of the main
>cygwin web pag
>
I guess you meant that it "acts as a Linux emulation layer providing 
substantial Linux API functionality" and a correct Linux API should 
return exidcode in the high byte?

I was mainly referring to the strangeness that windows errorlevel is set 
correct but executing from Mozilla does not... anyway, I guess enigmail 
people should continue on their "let's convert any 256 errorcode to 2 
and assume it is cygwin's fault".

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