MRAB wrote :
Emmanuel wrote:
I'm using Python 2.6 and the new subprocess module to get the exit
value of an external executable. It appears the return value given by
wait() or poll() operations is masked under Unix: I only get the
lower 8 bits. So an exit value of 0x0402 in the C program will be seen
as 0x02 in Python. And this does not happen on Windows... Any idea why
that is ?
I believe that in Unix the exit code is indeed limited to 8 bits.
Looks like you're right but the info is difficult to find since it is
implementation dependent. I finally found it on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_status. This is very confusing because
the parameter type of the exit function is an int ?!
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