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Re: ERRORLEVEL not returning to Cygwin shell


On 10/11/2013 11:53 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:42:47AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
From: Larry Hall (Cygwin)

On 10/11/2013 8:27 AM, paul hermeneutic wrote:
I am using CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PAC047922 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39
i686 Cygwin

An exit code returned by a DOS batch file does not seem to be coming
back to the Cygwin shell. I am using bash.

$ cat myexit.bat
@echo off
set EXITCODE=%1
echo got here with %1
exit /b %EXITCODE%

$ cmd /c c:/DOCUME~1/pwatson/bin/myexit.bat 8
got here with 8

$ echo $?
0

WJFFM.  Same version, same arch.  Guess you need to do some more digging.

FWIW, I get the same results as the OP:

$ cat myexit.bat
@echo off
set EXITCODE=%1
echo got here with %1
exit /b %EXITCODE%
$ cmd /c myexit.bat 8
got here with 8
$ echo $?
0
$ uname -r
1.7.25(0.270/5/3)
$

For grins, I tried with both Unix and DOS line endings. Made no difference.

Cygwin has no control and loses all communication with the cmd.exe
child process.  How is it supposed to return anything other than an
exit code of 0 because cmd.exe exited normally.  You simply cannot mix
Windows and Cygwin like this.

exit /b seems to cause CMD to exit with that value.  It does for me:

   % cmd /c myexit.bat 9; echo SAW $?
   got here with 9
   SAW 9

This is on Windows 7 64.  Maybe other versions of Windows differ.

Don't know if it's significant or not but I'm running W7 64 too,
running Cygwin 32bit.


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