On Thursday 20 September 2001 11:53 am, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > IMHO, these discrepancies should be hidden by our API. E.g. we aught to > provide both an apr_status_t (with the return results matched up across > platforms, and added to our APR_statuses lists) and the processes' exit > code. > > APR_SUCCESS would mean the process _has_ terminated, here's the exit code > we can share with you. IMHO exit code is undefined for all other results.
Our API already creates APR_CHILD_DONE and APR_CHILD_NOTDONE. These are status codes, which is why APR_SUCCESS doesn't make sense here. There is no success or failure, just status. Ryan > > Bill > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Tutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Kevin Pilch-Bisson'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:26 PM > Subject: RE: apr_proc_wait status codes. > > > That would seem to make lots of sense. > > > > Bill > > > > "Though we are not now that strength that in old days moved Earth and > > Heaven, that which we are we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts made > > weak by time and fate but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, > > and not to yield." -- Tennyson > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kevin Pilch-Bisson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 7:50 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: apr_proc_wait status codes. > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm the one sort of reponsible for asking for return codes in > > apr_proc_wait (and thanks for how quickly they were added), but now I am > > concerned about their portability. > > > > My MSDN page for GetExitCodeProcess says it retrurns either > > STILL_ACTIVE or the return code for the process. Meanwhile my linux > > waitpid man page says that the status code must be acessed using > > WIFEXITED, WEXITSTATUS, etc macros. > > > > Perhaps we also need some APR_PROC_STATUS macros? > > -- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Kevin Pilch-Bisson http://www.pilch-bisson.net > > "Historically speaking, the presences of wheels in Unix > > has never precluded their reinvention." - Larry Wall > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- ______________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------
