java.lang.Process.exitValue() wrong

[Weiqi Gao]

On Sun, 2001-09-23 at 09:30, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 23 Sep 2001, Weiqi Gao wrote:
> 
> > In GCC 3.0, on both Solaris/sparc and Linux/intel, I have encountered
> > the following problems: [odd return value after a Process.waitFor()].
> 
> I believe the system call wait() (which presumably Process.waitFor()  is
> using returns an encoded value containing the process return value and how
> the process was terminated.  Read the man page for wait()  for details.

Then the implementation of java.lang.Process should probably use the
appropriate macros to extract the true status and return that from
waitFor() and exitValue().

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Weiqi Gao
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