From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sat Oct 29 19:37:39 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Message-ID: <4363B1AE.2020003@obta.uw.edu.pl> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 19:30:22 +0200 From: Konrad Kokoszkiewicz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051003) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Schmidt Cc: MiNT-Liste Subject: Re: [MiNT] Re[2]: Pexec mode 0 References: <629037063.20051028122318@der-ingo.de> <436228DA.6050304@obta.uw.edu.pl> <1641208225.20051028163355@der-ingo.de> In-Reply-To: <1641208225.20051028163355@der-ingo.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: draco@obta.uw.edu.pl Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: >>k_exec.c, sys_pwaitpid() - where the return walue for Pexec(0) comes from: > > ^^^^^^^^ > k_exit.c Yes. > >> /* Strip down the return code of the child down to 8 bits. >> Some misbehaving programs exceed this limit which could >> cause a misinterpretation of the wait status signaled >> (with possible memory faults if the signal would be >> > NSIG). */ >> r &= 0xffff00ff; > > > AHA! Very interesting! A comment in the MiNT source code... > That's going to be our reference docs in the future? > > Sorry, I am sure you tried to help but your answer is not helpful at > all like that. I thought that you have a problem with reading C source code - you write something like that - so I pointed you out the place where the problem comes from. KMK