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From: Edward McGuire <cygwin.com@metaed.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7.x on Windows 7: Exit statuses of Win32 executables are sometimes wrong
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinC3GyrJDxj6V8tBExVfvTvsrxmqA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0C817B08-1920-43DB-B9A0-26E4B2E362EA@apple.com>

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 13:35, John Dong <jdong@apple.com> wrote:
>I've tried using a different shell (like dash), but it doesn't make a difference, leading me to suspect this to be a lower-level issue within the Cygwin DLL.
Have you tried it with the stock Windows command processor? Something
like this (untested) script?

@echo off
:redo
rem c:\path\to\exiter.exe 0
if errorlevel 1 exit /b %errorlevel%
echo %errorlevel%
goto:redo

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-29 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-29 20:01 John Dong
2011-04-30 11:30 ` Edward McGuire [this message]
2011-04-30 13:23   ` John Dong
2011-05-02 17:18     ` John Dong
2011-05-10 17:22 ` John Dong
2011-05-25 14:16 ` Edward Lam
2011-05-25 14:20   ` Christopher Faylor
2011-05-26  2:20     ` John Dong
2011-05-26  5:47       ` Christopher Faylor
2011-05-26  6:02 ` Corinna Vinschen

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