From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-02-06T05:50:24+09:00
Subject: Re: 'ruby' exit code 32512

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 jacob@asperasoft.com wrote:

> Hi, I was having trouble with what seems to be an inconsistency in
> ruby exit codes.  I can explain this best with examples:

nothing to do with ruby

man 2 wait
...

WEXITSTATUS(status)

evaluates to the least significant eight bits of the return code of the child
which terminated, which may have  been  set  as the  argument  to a call to
exit() or _exit() or as the argument for a return statement in the main
program.  This macro can only be evaluated if WIFEXITED returned true.

...

the exit staus in unix is stored in only the first byte of the exit status
word. and

32512 => 11111110 0000000
                      ^
                      ^
                      ^
                     exit status


this is one of the beautiful things about windows being non-posix.

;-)

-a
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