On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:24:04AM +0200, Daniel Lungu wrote: >> -----wrong-nil(!)-exit-status----- >> % nerr-cl.exe; echo $? >> 0 >> >> $? cannot distinguish exit(0) from exit(-2) ... this is >> logical anarchy! > >:) Ah, but those aren't just two different values passed to exit, they are >:) in fact two entirely different versions of the exit function: gcc links in >:) the version from newlib, whereas msvc links in the version from msvcrt. > >What I meant was calling same msvcrt exit() with status = {0,-2} (in >nerr-cl.exe). > >:) So the problem really is that the Windoze version of the exit function >:) isn't POSIX compliant. Still, we already knew that windoze != unix. >:) That's why cygwin exists, after all! > >Right. Still, Cygwin could do better. See below.
Please read up on how the wait() function works. This is what cygwin emulates on Windows. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/