New submission from Nico <nicofroehl...@icloud.com>:
Following problem occurred. A C style program can have negative return codes. However this is not correctly implemented in the Windows API. Therefore it is being returned as unsigned long by the API hence it leads to ambiguity while comparing return codes. For reference regarding this topic see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/main-function-command-line-args?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=vs-2019 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-getexitcodeprocess I suggest a ---------- components: Windows messages: 374194 nosy: MrTroble, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Popen.wait does not account for negative return codes type: behavior versions: Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41386> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
