Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 15:00:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Geoffrey Robinson <geoffr@globalserve.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Return Codes Multiplied by 256 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980426145848.18485B-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <35438F8E.63B2CCBD@globalserve.net>
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On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: > If I divide the value returned by 256 I get one of the return codes I > specified in my program but I'm afraid something may be wrong if I'm > getting it back as a multiple of 256. Can somebody verify that this is > supposed to happen, or not. The returned status contains additional information in the high order bits, the lowest 8 bits contain the return code. man wait for details, you may want to use the WEXITSTATUS(status) macro to get the return code. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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