On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Tomas Kotal <tomas.ko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Seems like I found the problem: os._exit probably takes as parametr unsigned > char, so it uses as error code whatever value it gets modulo 256: > > os._exit(1) # process.exitcode == 1 > os._exit(255) # process.exitcode == 255 > os._exit(256) # process.exitcode == 0 > os._exit(257) # process.exitcode == 1 > os._exit(32512) # process.exitcode == 0 > > So on Linux it's necesary to call something like this: > os._exit( os.system(cmd) >> 8 ) > > Because the first byte of return value on Linux is number of signal which > kills the process and the second one is actual exit code.
Yep. I had a reply part-written but you beat me to it! That is indeed what you need if you want to chain return values. However, why are you using os._exit? Check out the note here: http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os._exit ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
