At 10:09 PM 3/31/2005, Larry Hall wrote: > At 01:48 PM 3/31/2005, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >With cygwin1.dll version 1.5.13 exit codes to Windows (I use W2K and XP) have > >changed by a factor of 256 (shift of 8 bits) as mentioned in the 2 messages > >cited below. I have processes running under Windows shells that run several > >days, doing a lot of steps (both unix tools like gawk, head, sort etc. and gcc > >compiled c-programs) fully automatically. Flow control heavily relies on return > >codes (%errorlevel% in Windows). The codes were introduced according to the > >exit codes of the previous versions of the cygwin-libraries that put into > >%errorlevel% exactly what was provided by exit(). With the upgrade to 1.5.13 > >the exit codes changed by a factor of 256, and since Windows XP uses 16 bit > >codes, are now limited to a maximum value of 255. > > > >Before I check and change many hundreds of lines of *.bat files: Will this > >return code behaviour change again in the future or can I assume this will > >last? > > > Current snapshots have the following change applied: > > - Right shift exit code by eight when not started in a cygwin environment > > If you want to see if this helps in your situation, try a recent snapshot > (<http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>). > Thanks! A quick test proves that cygwin1-20050404.dll solves the problem properly. Thank you once again!
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