On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 01:36:45PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>*I've also added an 'exitcode' field to _pinfo so that a Cygwin process >>*will set the error (sic) code in a UNIX fashion based on whether it is >>*exiting *due to a signal or with a normal exit(). >> >>Since a windows program can't exit "due to a signal" the only >>alternative would be to consider it an exit code. > >And what I was trying to say (perhaps not as eloquently as I would have >wished) was that it's better, IMO, to mangle the negative exit code >from a Windows app than to let it tread on the reserved bits.
You probably want to mediate on what would possibly be meant by the term "unix fashion". Hint: It does not mean "set some reserved bits and do strange things with negative exit values". Maybe looking at wait.h would be helpful. cgf
