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Re: ExitProcess() with negative argument -> zero exit status from wait*()
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:49:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: ExitProcess() with negative argument -> zero exit status from wait*()
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 01:25:23PM -0400, Bob Byrnes wrote:
>I don't want to mix APIs. I just want a clean interface between processes.
>Shouldn't cygwin at least try to interoperate with native win32 apps?
>Failing to do so really limits its usefulness, IMO.
Cygwin uses the values in ExitProcess to signal parent processes in a
unix-like way. If that is not the way that you want to use it, then I
don't have any other suggestions.
cgf
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