Re: wait-process API limitation

2009-09-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote 2009-07-20: > Right now, wait_subprocess assumes that an exit status of 127 from the > child process implies failure, and prints a message unless null_stderr is > set. However, this led to a regression in m4 1.4.13 - an intentional > status of 127 is ambiguous with failure only if

wait-process API limitation

2009-07-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Right now, wait_subprocess assumes that an exit status of 127 from the child process implies failure, and prints a message unless null_stderr is set. However, this led to a regression in m4 1.4.13 - an intentional status of 127 is ambiguous with failu