Exitcode is 0 when killing a cygwin initiated process via taskmanager

[Marco Atzeri]

On 12/23/2014 12:09 PM, - wrote:
>>> Using Taskmanager is brute force as cygwin dll can not act and correctly manage the exitcode
>
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks, but I do not agree. One element of the script was killed, not
> the hoöe script.

It was not killed in the proper cygwin way.

 > It should be more robust. What I do now is: Read
> stdout of the program (rsync) and only if I got the right footer of
> rsync I rely on exitcode 0.
>
> That is insane.

your opinion.

For me, it is simple: if you want a Unix like behavior use cygwin kill.

Otherwise propose a patch...
https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC


> Is it possible to kill the process of a script element in GNU and
> having a returncode of 0 and a continuing script? If yes we can't use
> returncodes at all anymore in shell scripts?
>
> Thanks lopiuh
>

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