Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 17:42:48 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Bug in popen
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On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Robert Hoehne wrote:

> Anywhere in the docs and also in popen.c it is documented,
> that pclose returns zero for success and nonzero for failure.
> But effectively pclose return in the case of success the return
> value of the piped program.

DJ, what exactly does Posix say about this?  IIRC, the last changes in
pclose were done to make it more Posix-compliant.