Re: [Patch] libfortran: Fix execute_command_line for Windows

[Jerry D <jvdelisle2@gmail.com>]

On 1/18/23 7:42 AM, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Reported by nightstrike, who also tested this patch.
> 
> On Windows, we call system() which works as described at
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/system-wsystem?view=msvc-170
> 
> Namely, it only fails with "-1" if the command interpreter
> could not be started. Otherwise, it has the return value.
> (Same on Linux.) On POSIX systems, 'sh' calls exit(127) or
> _exit(127) if it cannot execute the program of the passed string,
> as documented. Cf. https://www.unix.com/man-page/posix/3p/system/
> 
> Thus, the question is what happens on Windows. Our experiments, several
> webpages (like stackoverflow) and the source code of WINE for cmd.exe 
> indicate
> that Windows returns 9009 in that case. See for instance
> https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/master/programs/cmd/wcmdmain.c#L1262-L1269
> 
> Thus, we now do likewise. The code is for MINGW; Cygwin does not set 
> that that
> var and is likely to use return values closer to POSIX.
> 
> OK for mainline?
> 
> Tobias

OK, thanks fir fix.

Jerry