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Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 02:41:59 +0200
From: Lapo Luchini <lapo AT lapo DOT it>
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Subject: cygwin's exit status / errorlevel
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I have a vague feeling that I already asked about this one.. but I can't 
find it on the archives, so I guess I forgot that or either the e-mail 
got lost by the server... anyway...

Why is cygwin's exitstatus seen by "windows" as an errorlevel 256 times 
bigger?
It is as if the exitstatus is the high byte of the errorlevel.
But not on the command-line, only if called by another program (popen? I 
don't know what call does Mozilla use... but I can investigate).

This leads to problems e.g. in mozilla's enigmail when using cygwin's gpg
http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2366

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Lapo 'Raist' Luchini
lapo AT lapo DOT it (PGP & X.509 keys available)
http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796)



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