On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:58:22PM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote: >On Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:45 PM [EST], Christopher Faylor wrote: >> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg01382.html > >Yeah, I know of that post. I'm still _highly_ confused as to this - >chalk it up to the fact I'm more used to dealing with return codes in >Linux, so forgive my ignorance. I'm also not the greatest programmer >in the world. > >Your telling me an exit code of 1 inside of cygwin (and Linux for that >matter) is supposed to be considered as errorlevel 256 by Windows >rather then 1? I'm sorry if I am not catching on here entirely of why >this is.
The referenced message tells you exactly what you should expect at the DOS prompt if a cygwin program exits with a status of "1", i.e., you should expect a "256". cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
