From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:05:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83fusdc5uj.fsf@gnu.org> 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> <87wplpixdx.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83k2hpcgug.fsf@gnu.org> <87shwdhva7.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466104014 10883 80.91.229.3 (16 Jun 2016 19:06:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:06:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6430@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 16 21:06:44 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 1bDcck-0006x6-Oe for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:04:25 -0400 In-reply-to: <87shwdhva7.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes on Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:56:48 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:119635 Archived-At: > From: Óscar Fuentes > Cc: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, 6430@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:56:48 +0200 > > cl.exe, for instance, uses the codes in winerror.h for reporting > failures: > > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ebh0y918.aspx Those are just the normal error codes in disguise, and the ones relevant to cl.exe are all below 255 (when the top 2 bits are stripped). So I see no problem here with the 8-bit limitation of the status we report.