2.99_04 -- Win32 test exit code still broken

David Golden xdaveg at gmail.com
Sat Oct 13 02:45:49 UTC 2007


On 10/12/07, Andy Armstrong <n at rciss.us> wrote:
> Yes - and I was thinking of -1 being returned from waitpid, but it's
> actually $? that's -1 of course.
>
> Hmm. D'you think we should / can do anything about it?

I'd assume that $? being -1 is the same thing as wait returning -1 --
there's no child process to get a status from.  The odd exit value is
0xffffffff >> 8 and from some googling, 0xffffffff is some windows
process error code.

If all tests pass, I'd just ignore it.  Maybe warn and ignore it.

David


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