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bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits
From: |
Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: |
bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:15:54 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> When a Windows application calls an API that fails and the application
>> has no method for recovering from the error, it is customary to exit
>> with the error code of the API (usually obtained with GetLastError).
>
> GetLastError has nothing to do with this, because it's not an API that
> fails, it's a program that exits with some arbitrary exit code.
if( ! CreateProcess(....) ) {
DWORD ec = GetLastError();
// do some cleanup
ExitProcess(ec);
}
The program exits with the error code obtained with GetLastError, which
is a 32 bit number.
The program may have its own exit codes, which can be wider than 8 bits.
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/13
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/06/14
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/14
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/14
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/14
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/06/15
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/15
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits,
Óscar Fuentes <=
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/15
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/06/15
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/15
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/06/15
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/15
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/06/15
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/15
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/06/15
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/15
- bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/06/16