Hi Tobias,

Am 18.01.23 um 16:42 schrieb Tobias Burnus:
Reported by nightstrike, who also tested this patch.

On Windows, we call system() which works as described at
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/system-wsystem?view=msvc-170

Namely, it only fails with "-1" if the command interpreter
could not be started. Otherwise, it has the return value.
(Same on Linux.) On POSIX systems, 'sh' calls exit(127) or
_exit(127) if it cannot execute the program of the passed string,
as documented. Cf. https://www.unix.com/man-page/posix/3p/system/

Thus, the question is what happens on Windows. Our experiments, several
webpages (like stackoverflow) and the source code of WINE for cmd.exe
indicate
that Windows returns 9009 in that case. See for instance
https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/master/programs/cmd/wcmdmain.c#L1262-L1269

Thus, we now do likewise. The code is for MINGW; Cygwin does not set
that that
var and is likely to use return values closer to POSIX.

I don't use Windows, but this LGTM.

OK for mainline?

Yes, and thanks for the patch!

Harald


Tobias
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