Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 02:30:02PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > system(3) has some awkward phrasing for the case where > > the execution of the shell fails: > > > > "If execution of the shell fails, system() returns the > > termination status for a program that terminates with > > a call of exit(127)." > > I read that as trying to say that e.g. wait(2) would give a status > where WIFEXITED(status) is true and WEXITSTATUS(status) returns 127.
While that is the case, that's internal to system(3); the end result for the user is that system(3) will return 127. -Jan
