From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 06:13:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87wplpixdx.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <1310.80.58.205.52.1276622459.squirrel@correo.ozu.es> <831t3zg7or.fsf@gnu.org> <83d1njdvk9.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvmmk52b.fsf@wanadoo.es> <8337oeebr0.fsf@gnu.org> <87inxajxed.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83y466cvfs.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg7yjrwu.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83shwecq84.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8imjqwh.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r3bycor8.fsf@gnu.org> <8760tajori.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83oa72cmmj.fsf@gnu.org> <871t3yjljf.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83mvmldfnp.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466050465 4663 80.91.229.3 (16 Jun 2016 04:14:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 04:14:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6430@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 16 06:14:14 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bDOh4-0000yi-9c for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 06:14:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46276 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDOh3-0004ST-AG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:14:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57013) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDOgx-0004S6-Qs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDOgs-0002KN-EX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:14:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:58694) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDOgs-0002KE-Bd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bDOgs-0003Nx-8M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:14:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 04:14:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6430 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6430-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6430.146605043512985 (code B ref 6430); Thu, 16 Jun 2016 04:14:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6430) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Jun 2016 04:13:55 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42797 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bDOgl-0003NN-HY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:13:55 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp08.acens.net ([86.109.99.132]:38772 helo=smtp.movistar.es) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bDOgj-0003N7-IV for 6430@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:13:54 -0400 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B0205.5762277B.0060, ss=1, re=0.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Original-Received: from qcore (217.125.182.141) by smtp.movistar.es (8.6.122.03) (authenticated as 981711563$telefonica.net) id 5746319D012F879F; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 04:13:47 +0000 In-Reply-To: <83mvmldfnp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 16 Jun 2016 05:35:38 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:119615 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > We only solve real-life problems in Emacs, not academical ones. Life > is too hard for anything else. The MS toolchain (to name just a case that we could expect to be used from Emacs) outputs quite a few exit codes larger than 255. If the user is interested on detecting one of those codes, he will be out of luck. The fact that there is just one bug report about this limitation of Emacs possibly shows that users are only interested on differentiating success from failure, zero from non-zero exit codes.