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Re: Cygwin not passing return code to Windows?


On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 03:06:03PM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote:
>Up until Cygwin 1.5.12, the return code from stuff like clamscan was
>being passed back to Windows, so programs outside of Cygwin could call
>the binary and tell weather or not the program found a virus in the
>file it scanned.
>
>Now, in the latest snapshots, that is no longer the case.  See example
>below using freshclam, but also applies to the other apps:

The odd error return was unintentional but there will be a change in cygwin
1.5.13 -- the error return will match what you'd expect for a unix program.

So, this is what you should expect:

  c:\>sh -c 'exit 1'
  c:\>echo %errorlevel%
  256

This will be the behavior of the next snapshot.

cgf

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