How to capture error in Cygwin, $? is not working

[Eric Blake]

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According to nlian on 3/13/2008 12:09 AM:
| What I don't understand is why $? return 0 and not 1060 or any other
| error code.

1060 is impossible - exit status is constrained to be 0 to 255 (8 bits is
all you get).  And while 1060%256 == 36 would be nicer, that fix would
have to come from Microsoft, not cygwin.  We have no control over their
lousy programming practices, including when their tools give an exit
status of 0 even when displaying a failure message.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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