Re: Cygwin 1.7.x on Windows 7: Exit statuses of Win32 executables are sometimes wrong

2011-05-25 Thread John Dong
grabbing Win32 process exit codes and how it differs from "Cygwin processes". John On May 25, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:16:03AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote: >> On 29/04/2011 2:35 PM, John Dong wrote: >>> Reproducing this se

Re: Cygwin 1.7.x on Windows 7: Exit statuses of Win32 executables are sometimes wrong

2011-05-10 Thread John Dong
n On Apr 29, 2011, at 11:35 AM, John Dong wrote: > Hi, > > Cygwin on Windows 7, seems to exhibit a rather peculiar behavior: Sometimes > the exit status of a Win32 process is incorrectly captured by Cygwin. > > I'm running Cygwin 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) on Windows 7 64-bit,

Re: Cygwin 1.7.x on Windows 7: Exit statuses of Win32 executables are sometimes wrong

2011-05-02 Thread John Dong
e kinds of bugs certainly aren't fun to chase down. John On Apr 29, 2011, at 5:29 PM, John Dong wrote: > Hi Edward, > > Yeah, I forgot to mention that I tried scripting it in a batch file outside > cygwin in much the same way as your script, and it ran for a day or two >

Re: Cygwin 1.7.x on Windows 7: Exit statuses of Win32 executables are sometimes wrong

2011-04-29 Thread John Dong
MSVCRT bug. John On Apr 29, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Edward McGuire wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 13:35, John Dong wrote: >> I've tried using a different shell (like dash), but it doesn't make a >> difference, leading me to suspect this to be a lower-level issue within the

Cygwin 1.7.x on Windows 7: Exit statuses of Win32 executables are sometimes wrong

2011-04-29 Thread John Dong
Hi, Cygwin on Windows 7, seems to exhibit a rather peculiar behavior: Sometimes the exit status of a Win32 process is incorrectly captured by Cygwin. I'm running Cygwin 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) on Windows 7 64-bit, but I've reproduced this behavior with every release of Cygwin 1.7 on both 32-bit and 64